Coin of Alexios I | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1951.31.4.1687
People: Alexios I, Byzantine (1081 - 1118)
Title: Coin of Alexios I
Classification: Coins
Work Type: coin
Date: 1092/1093-1118 CE
Places: Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
Period: Byzantine period, Middle
Culture: Byzantine
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/74707

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Bronze

Metal

AE

Technique

Struck

Dimensions

3.83 g

Denomination

tetarteron

Inscriptions and Marks

Obverse Inscription: IC XC (overlined) in field
Reverse Inscription: +LambdaLambdaEZIWDelta PiOT[

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number: DOC 4.1, 36.1 (p. 234)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year: 1951
Object Number: 1951.31.4.1687
Division: Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact: am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description: Obv.: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated on throne without back; r. hand raised in benedictino, holds Gospels in l.

Rev.: Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitsion, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., gl. cr.

Verification Level

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