ALEXIUS I ELECTRUM HISTAMENON – CHRIST PANTOCRATOR AND SAINT DEMETRIUS THESSALONICA ISSUE – AU NGC GRADED BYZANTINE COIN (Inv. 17857)
$2,250.00
BYZANTINE EMPIRE. ALEXIUS I, AD 1081-1118.
Electrum/silver histamenon nomisma (scyphate), 4.37 g, 29 mm. Issue of Thessalonica.
Obv. +KE[RΘ] AΛEZ, bust of Christ Pantocrator, holding Gospels and raising his right hand in benediction, IC-XC in fields. Rev: ΔI/MI/T/I Δ/EC/Π/I/T/H, Saint Demetrius and Alexius standing, facing, holding patriarchal cross on globe between them.
Sear, 1905.
NGC graded AU, Strike 4/5, Surface 5/5, rare emission.
Published: Vilmar Fixed Price List IV, no. 142.