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
Aspron trachy, 1195-1197, EL 4.14 g. [KE RO] – HΘE Christ facing on backless throne, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l.; in field, IC – XC. Rev. [AΛεZIωC ΔεCΠ KωNTANT] Alexius III, on l., wearing crown, divitision and loros, and St. Constantine, on r., in similar attire, both standing facing, each holding a cruciform sceptre and together holding labarum between them. DO 2d.2. Sear 2009.
Traces of double-striking on obverse, otherwise extremely fine
Ex Hirsch sale 281, 2012, 1132.