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ID number: BIRBI-B5609 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: P. D. Whitting Collection Collector: Whitting, Philip D.; Stewart, James R. Maker: Alexios I; Uncertain mint Denomination: Tetarteron Noumion Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1081-1118 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2 Weight (g): 3.33 Axis (degrees): 180.00 Provenance: Whitting 5655, ex. James R. Stewart, 30th January 1968. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft and in l. hand globus cruciger.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ...ΞIWΔЄC (Alexios, despot)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.43
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