Coin of Alexios III

Artists

Description

Obv.: Inscription in field. Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, standing on dais, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in l. hand. Symbol, in the shape of dots from the number five on a die, in each limb of nimbus cross. Jeweled form of dais. Tiny black circle in nimbus cross. Rev.: Inscription. Full-length figure of emperor on l., and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross on long shaft ending in small globule. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds anexikakia in r. hand; saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type.

Dimensions

4.49 g