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Coin of Alexios I

Coin of Alexios I

1081 - 1118

Alexios I

Byzantine

Obv.: Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, standing on dais; holds Gospels in l. hand. Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitsion, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., gl. cr.

Silver

Byzantine period, Middle

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