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Alexius III, Angelus-Comnenus: April 8, 1195-July 17, 1203
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Alexius III, Angelus-Comnenus, AV Hyperpyron, 1195-1203, Constantinople
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Christ standing facing on dais, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left, IC | XC across fields
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Alexius on left, wearing crown, divitision and chlamys, akakia in right hand and St. Constantine, bearded, crowned and nimbate on right, wearing divitision and loros, both standing facing, holding long patriarchal cross between them
25mm x 29mm, 4.47g
SB 2008

 

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