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Coin of Alexios I

Coin of Alexios I

1081 - 1118

Alexios I

Byzantine

Obv.: Christ, bearded, and nimbate wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor on l. crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitsion, collarpiece, and jeweled, waist-paneled loros of simplified type; holds gl. cr. in l. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Electrum

Byzantine period, Middle

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