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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1951.31.4.1840
People
Alexios III, Byzantine (r. 1195 - 1203)
Title
Coin of Alexios III
Classification
Coins
Work Type
coin
Date
1197-1203 CE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Europe, Constantinople (Thrace)
Period
Byzantine period, Middle
Culture
Byzantine
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/146397

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Gold
Metal
AV
Technique
Struck
Dimensions
4.38 g

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

Standard Reference Number
DOC 4.1, 1b.3 (p. 405)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Accession Year
1951
Object Number
1951.31.4.1840
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Description
Obv.: Inscription in field. Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, standing on dais, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. Linear form of dais, plain nimbus cross.

Rev.: Inscription. Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft ending in small globule. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type.

Verification Level

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