Description
Byzantine, Alexius III (A.D. 1195-1203), Electrum Trachy,
Obverse: +KE ROHΘEI (obscure), Christ enthroned, wearing nimbus, pallium and colobium, raising hand in benediction, Reverse: + AΛEZIW (blundered) KOTTANTI, Alexius and St. Constantine standing facing, holding between them a long labarum, each wearing a crown, divitision and loros, and holding cruciform sceptres,
(DO IV, XXIII/2c; S 2009).
Good very fine, an unusually well-struck example, rare thus.
4.59g