TYPE Byzantine Empire, Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118 AD), bronze pre-reform follis, Constantinople mint, anon. K class
DESCRIPTION .
Obv: Bust of Christ facing, wearing nimbus and holding Book of Gospels, Greek legend IC XC ("Jesus Christ"), border of large pellets
Rev: Virgin orans, border of large pellets, Greek legend MR - ThU
REFERENCE: SB 1901
GRADING: F+, visibly overstruck obv., green patina
ORDER INFO: B1937, $40
A better than average specimen of this attractive design with Christ and His Mother on opposite sides of the coin. The obverse is visibly overstruck the previous, class J type, with the cross, crescent and larger pellets clerly showing (upside-down), along with Christ's outline and the smaller circular pellet row.