174, Lot: 304. Estimate $200. Sold for $135. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius I Comnenus. 1081-1118. AR Histamenon Nomisma (26mm, 3.92 g). Thessalonica mint. Pre-reform coinage, 1081-1087. Facing bust of Christ, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels; nimbus with plain cross arms, • in cross arms / St. Demetrius, hand on hilt, and Alexius, crowned and wearing loros, standing facing, holding patriarchal cross set on globe on two steps between them, decorated loros. DOC IV 5b; SB 1905. VF, weak strike.