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Coin of Alexios I

Coin of Alexios I

1081 - 1118

Alexios I

Byzantine

Obv: Bust of Christ, bearded, with cross behind head, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. u u (wide-set) in field of cross. Rev.: Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitsion, collarpiece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in r. hand jeweled scepter, and in l., gl. cr.

Bronze

Byzantine period, Middle

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