THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Isaac I Comnenus, 1 September 1057 – 22 November 1059
Tetarteron 1057–1059, AV 3.99 g. +IhS XIS DCX REGNANTIhm Facing bust of Christ, with decorated nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, raising r. hand in benediction and holding Book of Gospels in l. Rev. +ICΛΛKIOC – BASIΛEY CPM Isaac standing facing, wearing crown with cross and pendilia and loros, grasping scabbard with l. hand and holding globus surmounted by pelletted cross with r. DO 3. Sear 1845.
Rare. Extremely fine
Ex Bank Leu 36, 1968, 627, and Sincona 17, 2014 354 sales.