Crowned bust facing, wearing loros, holding cross-tipped sceptre and cross on globe // Jewelled cross globe and two dots at each end, X in centre and F C (retrograde) M D in the four corners. Unknown provincial mint. SB 1931; DOC IV 40a; BMC 49-54

Rare.

This type is is variousely described as a provincial mint of Alexius or as minted by uncertain Turkic tribes in Asia Minor imitating official issues of Alexius. Here is a note from CNG on this type: A close approximation of the Byzantine prototype, most likely struck by one of the Turkish tribes that occupied Asia Minor and were pressing in upon the Byzantine heartland. The Seljuq Turks were aggressive in expanding their territory, but Alexius was effective in beating them back from the frontiers, only to see them supplanted by the Ottoman Turks, a much greater threat.