Description
Collection Number: WC 11979
Object Number:
Dates: 1081 - 1087
Denomination: Tetarteron Nomisma (Debased)
Dimensions: 19.50mm
Weight: 3.13g
Authority: Alexius I Comnenus
Mint: ThessalonicaThessaloniki
Languages: Greek
Obverse Type: ΘV in field. Bust of Virgin nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate bust of Christ on breast
Obverse Legend:
[ - ΘV]
Obverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Obverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Obverse Inscription Comment: Horizontal line above IC XC and NI KE
Reverse Type: +ΛΛIΔ ΠOTTK; Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision and chlamys, holds in right hand jewelled sceptre, and in left globus cruciger
Reverse Legend:
[+ΛΛIΔ ΠOT]T┴
Reverse Inscription Languages: Greek
Reverse Mintmarks:
N/A
Reverse Inscription Comments: Irregular legend
Bibliography
DOC IV p. 209 n. 8, Plate II
BNP pp. 681 n. 3, Plate XCIV
BMC Byz vol. 2, p. 546 n. 30, Plate LXV,6
Ratto p. 107 n. 2071, Plate L
Sabatier pp. 188-189 nn. 11-13, Plate LII,9-11
Sommer p. 330 n. 59.9
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