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ID number: BIRBI-B5610 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Maker: Alexios I; Thessalonica Denomination: Tetarteron Noumion Place made: Europe: Greece, Thessaloniki Culture: Byzantine Date made: 1091/2 Metal: Lead Diameter (cm): 2.05 Weight (g): 6.78 Axis (degrees): 135.00 Provenance: Barber acquisition 0145B. A. H. Baldwin, 1973. |

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Description: Obverse: Full-length figures of John II, beardless, on r., and of St. Demetrios, holding between them labarum on long shaft; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds sword, point resting on ground, in r. hand. Reverse: Full-length figures of Alexios I on l. and of Eirene, holding between them cross on long shaft; both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type.
Inscriptions: Obverse: ΔI (Demetrios) Reverse: +ΛΛЄΞ (Alexios) ЄIPHN (Eirene)
Bibliography: DOC IV.1.37.Var.
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