Isaac Comnenus (usurper in Cyprus) Æ Tetarteron. Uncertain mint B, AD 1187-1191(?). Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction and holding scroll in left, [IC-XC flanking nimbus; OЄMMA to left, NoVHΛ 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, ICAAKIOOX [ΔΕCΠΟΤΙC] around. DOC 10a; Sear 1998. 3.91g, 20mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Rare.
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 46, 5 June 2018, lot 903.