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IRENE DUKAINA
Author(s): Hugh Goodacre
Source: The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, Fifth
Series, Vol. 19, No. 74 (1939), pp. 105-111
Published by: Royal Numismatic Society
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IV.
IRENE DUKAINA.
WIFE OF THE EMPEROR ALEXIUS I.
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Fio. 1.
la complaisance et des bons procdes de MM. les conservateurs mon gard ". It is a nomisma of Alexius I with
his wife Irene and son J ohn II. At the time of the gift
Sabatier believed the coin to be unique, and he attributed it in his Monnaies Byzantines , vol. 88, pp. 202,
203, to John II with Alexius and another of his
brothers, possibly Manuel. Subsequently, however, he
became aware of another example, this time in gold,
in the Hoffman collection, and he himself described it
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Fig. 2.
as follows :
quite legible on the left side, and the object held by the
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thinks, also intended for her. The coin, which is described as " unpublished ", would seem to belong to that
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