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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 8399453, member: 95174&quot;]Another one to check off the list. I have been traveling and I was very happy to have this one waiting for me when I got home. </p><p><br /></p><p>As this thread was originally created it was showing an affordable path to Byzantine gold.&nbsp; This coin eluded me for some time. recently several came to market, I lost on the first one by 20 euro because I was traveling in the Pacific and the auction was in Europe, I slept through it. I was very frustrated. Luckily only a week later another came to market and I won it for considerably less than the first one. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is a rare coin because it was one of the first coins of the new denomination Alexius I Comnenus created. Electrum Aspron Trachy. I always figured the coins of Alexius were rarer because the following rulers recycled them. The Electrum trachea (Mix of gold a silver) of Alexius I started at 7 carats, his son John II down to 5 carats and Manuel around the same at 5 carats, As the century continued the gold content dropped to 2.5 carats and ending at Alexius III down to very little or no gold at all. </p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was the second highest denomination, 3 of these were equal to a Hyperpyron. </p><p><br /></p><p>My example was graded as choice Fine with a flan crack, It weighs 4.3gm and 30.07 mm It also has full legends.</p><p><br /></p><p>SBCV-1915</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1490342[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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