John III Ducas-Vatazes AR Trachy. Emperor of Nicaea. Magnesia, AD 1221-1254. Full-length figure of Christ standing facing on dais, nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, holding book of Gospels; barred [IC-]X[C] above, K (?) in right field / Facing figures of emperor standing on left, wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jewelled loros, and St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, wearing sagion over breastplate; both hold between them a patriarchal cross on long shaft. Unpublished variant, Cf. Sear 2083; cf. DOC 29 (electrum). 0.83g, 19mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine; clipped. Apparently unique and unpublished.