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Coin of Alexios I

Coin of Alexios I

1081 - 1118

Alexios I

Byzantine

Obv.: Bust of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorionl; beardless, nimbate bust of Christ on breast. Rev.: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitsion, and chlamys, holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, and in l., gl. cr.

Silver

Byzantine period, Middle

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