Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2192. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $275. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius III, Angelus-Comnenus. 1195-1203. AV Hyperpyron (3.98 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Christ standing facing on low daïs, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Alexius, wearing chlamys and short beard, and holding akakia, and St. Constantine I, crowned and nimbate and wearing loros, standing facing, holding patriarchal cross between them. Cf. DOC IV 1b.6; SB 2008. Good VF, obverse die shift, reverse graffito.