Extremely Rare Type

351, Lot: 725. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius I Comnenus. 1081-1118. Æ Tetartemorion – Half Tetarteron (15mm, 1.74 g, 7h). Thessalonica mint(?). Nimbate half-length facing bust of the Theotokos (not orans) / Crowned half-length facing bust of Alexius, wearing loros, holding labarum and globus cruciger. DOC 44; SB 1934 (unpriced, listed as ’Extremely rare’). VF, brown surfaces, minor roughness. Extremely rare type with the Theotokos not orans.

From the Prue Morgan Fitts Collection.