Online Collections at UoB - Objects
Numismatics
ID number: BIRBI-B5565 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Constantinople Denomination: Tetarteron Noumion Place made: Eurasia: Istanbul Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 1.7 Weight (g): 3.00 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 3797. |
|
Description: Obverse: Bust of Christ, bearded, with cross behind head, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand; U U in field of cross. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled-loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre (6 jewels), and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ...ΛC Ξ… (Alexios)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.34.2
|