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Monograms
Coin: 7819
Format
Coin
Numismatic Collection
Firestone
Issue
4882
Details
Notes
Double-struck Christ figure - first strike produces an axis at 6 o'clock, the second at 5:30. Further, it is clear that two different dies were used - the first lacks pellets in the nimbus cross, while the second has a pattern of five pellets.
Object Type
coin
Denomination
hyperpyron
Metal
Gold
Region
Byzantium
State
City
Constantinople
Ruler
Alexios III Angelos Comnenus (1185 to 1204)
Date
1197 to 1203
Obverse Figure Description
Christ, standing, facing, Full-length Christ standing on dais, holds Gospels in l. hand
Obverse Legend
ΚЄΡΟ ΗΘЄΙ ΙC ΧC
Reverse Figure Description
Emperor and St. Constantine, standing, full-length emperor on l., St. Constantine on r., holding patriarchal cross on a long shaft between them; emperor holds anexikakia in r. hand
Reverse Legend
ΑΛΕΞΙΟCΔЄCΠΤ O|W|K|TWKOMNHNW Θ
Citations
DOC, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 vol. 4 pt. 1 pp. 404-405 1b
BMC.Byz., Warwick Wroth, Catalogue of the Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, 1908 vol. 2 p. 600 3
Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 2008
References
DOC
BMC.Byz.
Sear
Coin Description
Size
28 in mm
Die Axis
6
Weight
4.43 in grams
Accession
Accession number: 29, 2005-01-14, A. H. Baldwin & Sons, Ltd.
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