Details

Object Type

coin

Denomination

half-tetarteron noummion

Metal

Copper

Region

Byzantium

State

Thessalonica

City

Thessalonica

Ruler

Alexios III Angelos Comnenus (1185 to 1204)

Date

1197 to 1203

Obverse Figure Description

St. George, Bust, facing, O ΓI in field. Bust of St. George, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic, breastplate, and sagion; holds spear in right hand, resting over right shoulder, and in left, shield

Obverse Legend

ΓΕ/PW(ligatured) left, OC right

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor, standing, facing, Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in right hand labarum on long shaft, and in left, globus cruciger. Manus Dei in upper right field

Reverse Legend

AΛΕZI ΔΕCΠOTH

Citations

• DOC, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 1, p. 419 Alexius III 8a var. (long shaft with no labarum, patriarchal cross on globe)
• BMC, Warwick Wroth, Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, 1908 Alexius III cf. 39-44
• Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 2016-2017

References

• DOC
• BMC
• Sear