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[[Image:Byzantium H3035-29699o.jpg|300px|thumb|Heritage sale 3035, lot 29699]]
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This specimen was lot 29699 in Heritage sale 3035 (Long Beach, September 2014), where it sold for $940. The catalog description<sup>[1]</sup> noted, "Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (33 mm, 4.36 g, 6h axis). Constantinople, post-reform, 1092/3-1118. + KЄ RO HΘЄI, full figure of Christ Pantocrator enthroned facing on backless throne, with cruciform nimbus, raisinf right hand in benediction and holding gospels in lap; barred IC XC across upper field / Alexius standing facing, wearing crown, divitision, and chlamys, and holding labarum in right hand and globus cruciger in left; to upper right, crowning manus Dei emerging from Heaven; to left, A/ΛЄ/SI/Ω/ΔЄC/ΠO/T in seven lines; to right, T/Ω/K/O/(MNh axis)/N/Ω in seven lines. Sear 1912. DOC 20. Well struck on a broad flan. NGC (photo-certificate) MS? 5/5 - 5/5. From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex William Herbert Hunt Collection (Sotheby's New York, 5-6 December 1990), lot 902."

''[[Bibliography|Source]]:''
* <sup>[1]</sup>Michaels, David, Cristiano Bierrenbach and Sam Spiegel, ''Heritage Signature Auction 3035: Ancient Coins, Featuring the Lexington Collection of Jonathan K. Kern and the Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection,'' Dallas: Heritage Auction Galleries, 2014.

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