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Coin of Alexios III
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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.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Thomas Whittemore
Title: Coin of Alexios III
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.
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