Watch List notes:

Isaac II Angelus, first reign, 1185-1195. Aspron Trachy (Electrum, 30 mm, 3.99 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. The Virgin Mary enthroned facing, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, holding before her the nimbate head of the infant Christ; to her left and right, MP - ΘV. Rev. ICAAKIOC Δ Isaac II standing facing on the left, wearing divitision and chlamys, holding cruciform scepter in his right hand and akakia in his left hand, crowned by the Archangel Michael, beardless and nimbate, standing facing on the right in military attire, holding jewelled scepter in his left hand; in field to lower right, X / M. DOC 2b. SB 2002. Some graffiti, otherwise, good very fine.


From a collection formed in the Rhineland from the late 1970s to the late 1990s.