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<p>[QUOTE="arnoldoe, post: 4026788, member: 72712"][ATTACH=full]1058554[/ATTACH]</p><p>AE follis (6.9g 28mm). Struck under the reign of Alexius I Comnenus.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obverse: Bust of Christ , bearded and nimbate, holding Gospels in right hand.</p><p>Reverse:. Latin cross on steps with A-Λ-B-P in angles (Alexius Basileus Romaion)</p><p>with an Arab countermark on the Top right of reverse side.</p><p>Overstruck on a follis of Michael IV, Sear 1825</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin type along with 13 others were attributed to Trebizond under Theodore Gabras by <a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/articles/Bendall_Trebizond/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/articles/Bendall_Trebizond/" rel="nofollow">Simon Bendall in the 1977 Numismatic Chronicle</a> .. however some recent articles suggest that they are more likely to have been minted in the early or pre Crusades era somewhere northern Syria. possibly Antioch or Edessa?. <a href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_2017_num_6_174_3360" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_2017_num_6_174_3360" rel="nofollow">"Trebizond or Northern Syria?</a>..[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="arnoldoe, post: 4026788, member: 72712"][ATTACH=full]1058554[/ATTACH] AE follis (6.9g 28mm). Struck under the reign of Alexius I Comnenus. Obverse: Bust of Christ , bearded and nimbate, holding Gospels in right hand. Reverse:. Latin cross on steps with A-Λ-B-P in angles (Alexius Basileus Romaion) with an Arab countermark on the Top right of reverse side. Overstruck on a follis of Michael IV, Sear 1825 This coin type along with 13 others were attributed to Trebizond under Theodore Gabras by [URL='http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/articles/Bendall_Trebizond/']Simon Bendall in the 1977 Numismatic Chronicle[/URL] .. however some recent articles suggest that they are more likely to have been minted in the early or pre Crusades era somewhere northern Syria. possibly Antioch or Edessa?. [URL='https://www.persee.fr/doc/numi_0484-8942_2017_num_6_174_3360']"Trebizond or Northern Syria?[/URL]..[/QUOTE]
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