Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 114 6-7 May 2019
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Alexius I Comnenus, April 1081 – August 1118, with colleagues from 1088. Pre-reform coinage, 1081-1092. Debased Tetarteron, Thessalonica 1081-1087, EL 3.87 g. Half-length facing bust of the Theotokos, orans, facing bust of the Holy Infant on breast. Rev. Crowned facing bust, wearing short beard and loros, holding jewelled sceptre and globus cruciger; crown topped with cross and pendilia. DO 8. Sear 1906.
Old cabinet tone, minor marks on obverse, otherwise about extremely fine