Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 2173. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $220. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius I, Comnenus. 1081-1118. AV Hyperpyron (4.25 g, 6h). Constantinople mint. Struck 1092-1118. Christ enthroned facing, raising hand in benediction and holding Gospels / Alexius, wearing divitision, and jeweled chlamys, standing facing and being crowned by manus Dei, holding labarum with • on shaft and globus cruciger; crown topped with cross and with pendilia. DOC IV 20; SB 1913. Good VF, die shift, areas of flat strike.

From the Marc Poncin Collection.