Details

Object Type

coin

Denomination

billon trachy

Metal

Billon

Region

Byzantium

State

Thrace

City

Constantinople

Ruler

Alexios III Angelos Comnenus (1185 to 1204)

Date

1197 to 1203

Obverse Figure Description

Christ, Bust, facing, IC XC in field. Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in left hand. Pellet, or pellets, normally in each limb of nimbus cross

Obverse Legend

+KΕRO HΘΕI

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor and St. Constantine, standing, facing, Full-length figure or emperor on left, and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them globus cruciger. Emperor and saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter. Emperor’s loros waist 

Reverse Legend

AΛΕZIWΔΕC O W/K KOMN or AΛΕZIWΔΕC O W/K TWKOMHNW or variants

Citations

• DOC, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 1, p. 409 Alexius III 3c
• BMC, Warwick Wroth, Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, 1908 Alexius III cf. 15-36
• Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 2012-2013

References

• DOC
• BMC
• Sear