THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Andronicus I, Comnenus September 1183 – 12 September 1185
Aspron trachy 1183-1185, EL 4.03 g. +Θ Κ – EPO – HΘEI The Virgin nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; on her breast, head of the Infant Christ; in field, MHP ligate – ΘV. Rev. ANΔPONIK – [ΔεCΠOTH] Christ standing on r., nimbate, and Andronicus, on l., standing facing; Christ wears pallium and colobium, holds Book of Gospels and crowns Andronicus who wears divitision, loros and sagion and holds labarum and globus cruciger. In field, IC – XC. DO 2. Sear 1984.
Minor traces of overstriking, otherwise about extremely fine