Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 4.32 gm, 6h). NGC Choice XF 4/5 - 3/5, scratch. Thessalonica, post-reform coinage, AD 1092-1118. + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; barred IC-XC across upper fields / A/ΛE/ΞI/w / ΔEC/ΠO/Τ-T/w/KO/MN/N/w, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, six small pellets on sleeve, no jewelling along bottom hem; manus Dei crowning emperor from right. Sear 1924. From the Santa Monica Collection

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