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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 8350560, member: 95174&quot;]The previous examples have been excellent, I am envious [USER=138958]@TheTrachyEnthusiast[/USER], but not your normal finds, especially for a beginner.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are several examples of one of the most common type of trachea. It is two different issues of Alexius III, but this shows how different the types can look after striking. </p><p><br /></p><p><u>When you are beginning to collect these coins you will find these readily. </u></p><p><br /></p><p>They really marked an end to the silvering of these coins, I have not seen a truly silvered version of these coins. In fact the only silver types in this series are the Electrum Aspron Trachy, the gold content had slipped to be almost invisible. </p><p><br /></p><p>These three examples fall into my first category, 12th century before the fall to the Latins in 1204. Easy to attribute</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1481540[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203. Trachy Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, 1195-1203. Trachy, Constantinople, 1195-1197. Bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, raising right hand in benediction and holding scroll in left. Rev. Alexius and St. Constantine standing facing, holding between them globus cruciger, and each holding a labarum. SBCV-2011 and SBCV-2012 and&nbsp; 2 examples of SBCV-2011</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, when things began to go badly for Alexius III he added Comnenus to his coinage, the original coins only listed him as Angelus.</p><p><br /></p><p>I am uncertain on why his trachea are so common, starting collectors will find these coins of Alexius III and the coinage of Manuel I Comnenus the most abundant types of trachy.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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