THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Alexius I Comnenus, April 1081 – August 1118, with colleagues from 1088
Pre-reform coinage, 1081-1092. Debased trachy, Thessalonica 1082-1087, AR 4.40 g. +KERO – ΛΛEΞ Facing bust of Christ, nimbate, wearing tunic and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels with l.; in field, IC – XC. Rev. Δ/IMI/T/I – Δ[E] /C/ [ΠH] St. Demetrius on l., nimbate and in military attire, and Alexius, on r., wearing crown and loros, both holding patriarchal cross standing on globule and two steps between them. DO 5a. Sear 1905.
Good very fine / about extremely fine