Watch List notes:

John II Comnenus. 1118-1143. EL Aspron Trachy Nomisma (33mm, 4.38 g, 5h). Third coinage. Constantinople mint. Struck 1122-circa 1143. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / John and St. Georgius standing facing, holding patriarchal cross on three steps between them. DOC 8d; SB 1942. Good VF, some graffiti in obverse margin, slight obverse die shift.


From the D. Massey Collection. Ex Placidia Collection (Sincona Auction 37, 16 May 2017), lot 483 (purchased from Fortuna Galleries, New York, July 1976).