Countermarked “lillah”

217, Lot: 470. Estimate $100. Sold for $64. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Alexius I Comnenus. 1081-1118. Æ Follis (26mm, 4.67 g, 12h). Class K Anonymous type. Constantinople mint. Struck circa 1085-1092. Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator; c/m: “lillah” / Facing bust of the Theotokos, orans. DOC Class K; SB 1901; for c/m: cf. Lowick, Bendall, & Whitting, The Mardin hoard: Islamic countermarks on Byantine folles type 17 . Host coin Fair, c/m near VF, green and brown surfaces.

From the J.S. Wagner Collection.