Details

Notes

Triple struck obverse

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, IC XC in field. Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, standing on dais, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in left hand. Linear form of dais, plain nimbus cross

Obverse Legend

+KERO HΘEI

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor and St. Constantine, standing, facing, FFull-length figure of emperor on left, and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft ending in small globule. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in right hand; saint wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type

Reverse Legend

ALEΞΙWΔΕCΠ Ο/W/Κ ΤWΚΟΜΝΗΝW

Citations

• DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 1, p. 404 1b var. (with quincux in nimbus)
• BMC, Warwick Wroth, Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum, 1908 Alexius III 3-7
• Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 2008

References

• DOC 4
• BMC
• Sear