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Auction 37 16 May 2017
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ALEXIUS III ANGELUS-COMNENUS, 1195-1203
Mint of Constantinopolis
Electrum aspron trachy, 1195-1197.
Obv. [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. (A)ΛЄZI(ωC 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.
Sear 2009. DOC pl. 22, 4.
4.15 g. Scyphate form. Almost extremely fine.
Ex Sotheby's December 1976 (Ex Eton College).
Mint of Constantinopolis
Electrum aspron trachy, 1195-1197.
Obv. [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. (A)ΛЄZI(ωC 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.
Sear 2009. DOC pl. 22, 4.
4.15 g. Scyphate form. Almost extremely fine.
Ex Sotheby's December 1976 (Ex Eton College).