Isaac Comnenus (usurper in Cyprus) Æ Tetarteron. Uncertain mint B, AD 1187-1191(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, wearing pallium and colobium, raising hand in benediction and holding scroll, [IC]-XC flanking nimbus; [ЄMMA to left, NγHΛ to right] / The Virgin, nimbate, on right, and Isaac, to left, both standing facing; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium, and with her right hand crowns Isaac, who wears divitision and loros, and holds cruciform sceptre and akakia; MHP ligate between their heads, [IC]AAKI[OOX] ΔΕ[CΠΟΤΙC] around. DOC 10a; Sear 1998. 3.91g, 22mm, 6h.
Very Fine; some flatness. Rare.
From a private European collection.