Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus, AV Hyperpyron, 1195-1203, 25mm x 29mm, 4.47g, Constantinople.

IC-XC +KE R HQEI to left and right of Christ, standing facing on dais, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, right hand raised 
in benediction, book of Gospels in left, IC | XC across fields.
ALESIW DEC Kw TKWMNHNw, Alexius on left, wearing crown, 
divitision and chlamys, akakia in right hand and St. 
Constantine, bearded, crowned and nimbate on right, wearing 
divitision and loros, both standing facing, holding long patriarchal cross between them.

SB 2008; BMC 1-2.

With permission of beastcoins.com, Aug. 2010