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Byzantine Emp. Andronicus I Comnenus. Aspron trachy 1183-1185, EL 4.28g.

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Byzantine Emp. Andronicus I Comnenus. Aspron trachy 1183-1185, EL 4.28g.
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The Byzantine Empire. Andronicus I Comnenus, 1183-1185. Aspron trachy 1183-1185, EL 4.28 g. + Q KERO – HQEI The Virgin orans, nimbate, standing facing, wearing pallium and maphorium; on Her breast, nimbate head of the infant Christ. At sides of nimbus, MHP ligate – QV. Rev. ANDRONIK& – [DECPOTHC] Christ, on r., bearded and with crossed nimbus, and Andronicus, on l., standing facing; Christ wears pallium and collobium, holding Book of Gospels and crowning the Emperor, who wears divitision, loros and sagion and holds akakia and a labarum with a short shaft ending with a dot. In upper field, IC – XC. DO 2b var. Sear 1984. An apparently unrecorded variety (short shaft of the labarum) of a rare type. Lovely reddish tone and good very fine / about extremely fine. Ex Naville VIII, 1924, Beement, 1762.