Andronicus I Comnenus, 1183-1185. Hyperpyron (Gold, 29 mm, 4.34 g, 7 h), Constantinople. MP - ΘV Virgin Mary nimbate and wearing pallium and maphorium, enthroned facing, holding the facing, nimbate head of the infant Christ before her. Rev. ANΔPONIKOC ΔECΠOTHC / IC - XC Christ, bearded and with nimbus on right and Andronicus, with forked beard on left, both standing facing; Christ wears pallium and colobium, holding book of Gospels in his left hand and with his right crowning the emperor wearing divitision and loros and holding labarum and globus cruciger. DOC 1. SB 1983. Some striking flatness on the obverse and slight doubling, otherwise, virtually as struck.
From the Trausnitz Collection, acquired from Münzhandlung Athena on 21 July 2003.