Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 92 Part 1 23-24 May 2016
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THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Alexius III Angelus self-styled Comnenus, April 1195 – November 1203
Hyperpyron, 1197-1203, AV 4.45 g. [+] KE RO - HΘεI Christ standing facing on dais, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l.; in field, IC - XC. Rev. [AΛEZIω ΔECΠO - Tω KOMNHNω] Alexius III, on l., wearing crown, divitision and chlamys and St. Constantine, on r., nimbate and wearing loros, both standing facing, holding a long patriarchal cross between them. DO 1b. Sear 2008.
Struck on a narrow flan, otherwise, about extremely fine