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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2975975, member: 44316&quot;]The cup coins often have weak obverses and can be hard to identify. But, the history of the period is fascinating. I recommend John Julius Norwich&#039;s three-volume work &quot;Byzantium&quot; or at least its one-volume abbreviation, &quot;Byzantium--A Short History&quot; because it is almost entirely about the emperors. (The third volume &quot;Byzantium: The Decline and Fall&quot; covers 1081 (Alexius I) to the end. Unlike other books on the Byzantine empire, it spends little time on administrative structure and non-imperial things. It is almost all gossip! Read it and you will want a &quot;cup coin&quot; of whoever you read about, and it will be inexpensive. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]731169[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Alexius I, 1081-1118</p><p>26-24 mm. Remarkably silvery. Most are not.</p><p>Christ, nimbate, enthroned facing, holding gospels</p><p>Alexius I facing, crowned, with loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger</p><p>Sear 1918</p><p>DO IV 25 (part 2, plate V) part I pages 226-7 &quot;second coinage struck 1093-1118&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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