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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Collecting Nut, post: 8117691, member: 74863&quot;]This coins shape was very difficult to get a decent photo of. It’s shaped like a bowl, literally. And the coin has a crack on the outside edge. Yet it is without a doubt one of the most attractive and fascinating coins of its type I’ve ever seen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexius III, 1195-1203 AD</p><p>Billon trachy, 26mm, 2.2g, 6h;</p><p>Constantinople mint, 1195-1197 AD,</p><p>Obv. IC-XC, Bust of Christ facing,</p><p>beardless and nimbate, wearing pallium and Colombian, holding right hand in sign of benediction and holding scroll in left.</p><p>Rev. ((I can’t type Greek on my cell) Alexius on left, St. Constantine bearded and nimbate or right, holding globes cruciger between them, each wearing a crown, divitision and loros and holds labarum.</p><p><br /></p><p>This has silver but the content is so low it has a copper appearance. This fact brought about the decline in its value in relation to the hyperpyron (1/48), and by the end of the century it had fallen to 1/184 of the gold coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412879[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1412880[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1412881[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1412882[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1412883[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1412884[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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