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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 6612447, member: 95174&quot;][ATTACH=full]1266816[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t think it was a famous collection but he was a famous collector, he wrote several books and is mentioned in almost every reference of late Byzantine coins.&nbsp; <b>Simon Bendall</b>, I just acquired another coin from his collection as well and I will post that one after I receive it and photograph it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the info for this coin</p><p><br /></p><p><b>2018 ALEXIUS III ANGELUS-COMNENUS AE HALF TETARTERON SBCV-NL DOC 6 CLBC 8.4.2</b></p><p><br /></p><p>OBV Full Length Figure of the Virgin, nimbate, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion turned to r. Manus Dei in upper r. field.</p><p><br /></p><p>REV Full length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and colored piece and jeweled loros of a simplified type.; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger and in l. Globus cruciger</p><p><br /></p><p>Size 15mm</p><p>Weight 1.97gm</p><p>DOC lists 1 examples with weight 2.13gm and sized at 18mm</p><p><br /></p><p>This came from the collection of the late Simon Bendall. This coin is thought to have been minted in Constantinople the only half tetarteron thought to be minted from there.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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