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Coin of Alexios I

Coin of Alexios I

1081 - 1118

Alexios I

Byzantine

Obv.: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne without back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, skaramangion or divitsion, and sagion; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, and in l., gl. cr.

Electrum

Byzantine period, Middle

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