ALEXIUS I COMNENUS, 1081-1118, Pre-Reform Coinage
Mint of Thessalonica
Silver tetarteron 1081-1092.
Obv. MHP (ligate) - ΘV, facing bust of the Virgin Mary, orans, wearing pallium and maphorium; medallion containing head of infant Christ before breast.
Rev. (+ ΑΛЄΞΙω ΔΠΟΤ) Τω Κ Crowned facing bust of Alexius, wearing jeweled chlamys, holding jeweled sceptre in r. hand and globus cruciger in l.
Sear 1906. DOC pl. 2, 6.
3.71 g. Good very fine.
Ex Auction Frank Sternberg XXI. Zurich, November 1988. Lot 627.