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ID number: BIRBI-B5573 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D. Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Debased Tetarteron Nomisma Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1087 Metal: Silver Diameter (cm): 1.75 Weight (g): 2.73 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 0126, A. H. Baldwin, February 1951. |
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Description: Obverse: Bust of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate bust of Christ on breast. Reverse: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys, holds in r. hand jeweled sceptre (4 jewels), and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΘV (...of God) Reverse: …WΔ ΠOTTW… (Alexios, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.8.7
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