This bronze coin was in a pile of Byzantine coins I came by. It doesn't look like any Byzantine coin I've seen though. One side is a large cross. The other side looks like a cross in brackets with dots and a crescent surrounding. Does anyone have any ideas of where this coin is from or what it could be?
Most likely something like this. Not my coin. Alexius I Comnenus. 1092-1181 AD. AE Tetarteron. Patriarchal cross on two steps, A-D, K-F to left and right, above and below / ALEZI, crowned bust of Alexius facing, wearing loros, holding jewelled sceptre and cross on globe. SB 1932, BMC 56-65 http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/byz/alexius_I/t.html If you can make out the reverse lettering, it would help confirm.
Wow! Looks like you figured it out. There is a barely visible K and phi on the reverse. The obverse portrait really threw me. Thanks
