Byzantine
Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118 AD) Constantinople
BI aspron trachy (27mm 3.86g)
Obv: Christ seated facing on throne with square back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; IC-XC (barred) across fields, double border.
Rev: AΛE-ΔEC, bust of Alexius I facing, wearing crown with pendilia and jeweled chlamys decorated with eight pointed star on chest, cruciform scepter in right hand, globus cruciger in left; double border.
Sear 1918