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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 4443402, member: 95174&quot;]Nice find, this Alexius rarely comes to market and it is a Constantinople issue making it rare to begin with.&nbsp; In fact the Constantinople issue were so rare Phillip Grierson thought they were for ceremony use only.&nbsp; Modern info disproves this. </p><p><br /></p><p>When these were issued they would have had a silver coating on them like this one. This differentiated them from the Thessalonica issues. The Alexius Constantinople issues had around 4% silver content, not much, but a billion trachy only had 8%.</p><p>I have only seen several still silvered but many with traces of silvering. [ATTACH=full]1110519[/ATTACH] </p><p>It is a shame to say&nbsp; but this coin would be more attractive without the silver coating.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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