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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3509999, member: 87809&quot;]I have a John II Comnenus, but my dad had it set in a brooch for my mom, and she never wore it, what can I say...&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> He said it could always be taken out, which I have not done yet.</p><p><br /></p><p>AU Hyperpyron, Constantinople, first coinage, ca. 1118 - 1122</p><p>30.6 mm, aprox. 4.23 g</p><p>Ref.: Nomisma DOC IV-1 1a; SBCV 1938</p><p>Ob.: Christ seated facing on backless throne with 3 pellets on each arm, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels with five pellets on cover cradled on left arm; IC-XC (Jesus Christ), flanking head; double border</p><p>Rev.: half-length figures of Virgin on right and John II Comnenus with beard on left, together holding a patriarchal cross. Virgin nimbate with pallium and maphorium, and John wearing crown, loros and akakia, Manus Dei above emerging from cloud; around +IΩ ∆EXΠOTH − Θς at right MP</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]930760[/ATTACH]&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]930761[/ATTACH]</p><p>also have a Isaacus II Angelus Electrum Aspron Trachy, thankfully not mounted:</p><p>Constantinople, 12 Sep 1185 - 8 Apr 1195 </p><p>Ref.: Sear 2002; DOC 2a; Ratto 2178-2179</p><p>Ob.: MP-ΘV, the Virgin enthroned facing, nimbate, wears pallium and maphorium, holding nimbate head of infant Christ</p><p>Rev.: ICAAKIOC ∆, Θ (between heads), X/AP/X/M (on r.), Archangel Michael, standing nimbate on right in military attire, scepter in left, crowing Isaac with right; Isaac standing on left wearing divitsion and chlamys; cruciform scepter in left, akakia in right</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]930762[/ATTACH]&nbsp;&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]930763[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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