DOCIV Alexios I 40b, p. 238 (“barbarous style“; Thessalonica Fourth Coinage)
Preservation comment
Wear: flatstruck F-F+. Nicked edges; snapped edges or irregular pentagonal clipping?; sparse, slight pitting. Faint clouds of white bronze disease on both faces.
Published as
KenchreaiIII, pp. 76, 91-92, no. 1184, pl. V (R. Hohlfelder)
Jeweled, radiate cross on two steps with one globule flanked by two pellets at end of each arm; within thin dotted border (overall uneven rendering)
Obverse Inscription
In angles, [Ⲥ] - Φ | [Α]Λ - Δ
Reverse Description
Facing half-length figure of emperor, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type, holding in right hand scepter cruciger and in left hand globus cruciger; within thin dotted border (overall uneven)