Byzantine Follis, “Anonymous” Issue With Portrait of Christ, Reign of Alexius I – 1081 to 1118 CE – Byzantine Empire Good Selling Cheap Pice

Includes glass top leatherette display box.

• Origin: Byzantine Empire
• Authority: Emperor Alexius I (issued anonymously)
• Date: 1081 – 1118 CE
• Denomination: AE (bronze) follis
• Mint: Constantinople
• Size: 24mm, 5.26g
• Type Number: Sear 1901 (in David Sear’s “Byzantine Coins and Their Values”)
• Obverse: IC XC – Bust of Christ facing, holding Book of the Gospels
• Reverse: The Virgin orans, facing
• Notes: Anonymous Byzantine coins do not bear the name or image of any particular ruler, but some can still be attributed to the reign of a certain emperor.

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