Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 125 23-24 Jun 2021
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Alexius I Comnenus, April 1081 – August 1118, with colleagues from 1088.
Pre-reform coinage, 1081-1092. Debased trachy, Thessalonica 1082-1087, AR 4.32 g. +KERO – ΛΛEΞ Facing bust of Christ, nimbate, wearing tunic and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels with l.; in field, IC – XC. Rev. Δ/IMI/T/I – Δ[E] /C/ [ΠH] St. Demetrius on l., nimbate and in military attire, and Alexius, on r., wearing crown and loros, both holding patriarchal cross standing on globule and two steps between them. DO 5a. Sear 1905.
Light tone, virtually as struck and almost Fdc
Pre-reform coinage, 1081-1092. Debased trachy, Thessalonica 1082-1087, AR 4.32 g. +KERO – ΛΛEΞ Facing bust of Christ, nimbate, wearing tunic and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels with l.; in field, IC – XC. Rev. Δ/IMI/T/I – Δ[E] /C/ [ΠH] St. Demetrius on l., nimbate and in military attire, and Alexius, on r., wearing crown and loros, both holding patriarchal cross standing on globule and two steps between them. DO 5a. Sear 1905.
Light tone, virtually as struck and almost Fdc