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Andronikus I. Gidon AD 1222-1235. Nicaea
Aspron Trachy AR
23mm., 2,38g.
The Theotokos Sorotissa standing facing, nimbate, hands extended, wearing maphorion, cruciform pellets on shoulders and forehead; MP-ΘV across upper fields; in lower field left and right, C and A / Christ Chalkites standing facing, cross nimbate, wearing himation over divitsion, raising right hand in benediction and holding Gospels in left hand; IC-XC acorss upper fields; in lower left field, O/X/A/Λ; in lower right field, K/H/Th/S (ligatured).
good very fine, clipped
Cf. DOC IV pl. 37 (Uncertain of Nicaea) 1; cf. Bendall, 'A Further Note on a Possible Early Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond', NCirc, August 2006, fig. 1; 'An Early Coinage of the 'Empire' of Trebizond?', NCirc, June 2002, 1 and NCirc, January 2007, p. 9.1; Sear (Uncertain of Nicaea) 2148.
Aspron Trachy AR
23mm., 2,38g.
The Theotokos Sorotissa standing facing, nimbate, hands extended, wearing maphorion, cruciform pellets on shoulders and forehead; MP-ΘV across upper fields; in lower field left and right, C and A / Christ Chalkites standing facing, cross nimbate, wearing himation over divitsion, raising right hand in benediction and holding Gospels in left hand; IC-XC acorss upper fields; in lower left field, O/X/A/Λ; in lower right field, K/H/Th/S (ligatured).
good very fine, clipped
Cf. DOC IV pl. 37 (Uncertain of Nicaea) 1; cf. Bendall, 'A Further Note on a Possible Early Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond', NCirc, August 2006, fig. 1; 'An Early Coinage of the 'Empire' of Trebizond?', NCirc, June 2002, 1 and NCirc, January 2007, p. 9.1; Sear (Uncertain of Nicaea) 2148.