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Monograms
Coin: 18121
Format
Coin
Issue
11300
Details
Notes
Theodotou papers: Origin HRN
Object Type
coin
Denomination
billon trachy
Metal
Billon
Region
Byzantium
State
Thrace
City
Constantinople
Ruler
Alexios III Angelos Comnenus (1185 to 1204)
Date
1195 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 (symbol). 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. 412 Alexius III 3e
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
Coin Description
Size
25 in mm
Die Axis
6
Weight
3.10 in grams
Accession
Accession number: 882, 2022-03-22, Chris and Helen Theodotou Collection
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