Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1671. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ALEXIUS I Comnenus, with John II. 1081-1118. BI Aspron Trachy (3.24 g, 6h). Thessalonica mint. Post reform coinage, struck 1092-1093. IWDEC PO KEROHQEI, standing figures of John I, holding labarum and globus cruciger, and Christ, holding Gospels and crowning John / ALEZIW D EIRHNI AUG, Alexius and Irene standing facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. DOC IV 24; SB 1916. VF for type, weak strike especially on obverse. Very rare. ($500))

This piece and the associated electrum trachy (SB 1914) are coronation issues, marking the elevation of John II to co-ruler in 1092.