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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;furryfrog02, post: 8117697, member: 41219&quot;]That&#039;s a pretty well struck trachy. I haven&#039;t seen many with decently struck Christ sides.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have a good one of the utterly corrupt Isaac II Angelus, the ruler right before (and after) Alexius III, with Christ but here is one with Mary on the convex side.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1412890[/ATTACH] </p><p>Isaac II Angelus</p><p>Billon aspron trachy</p><p>Constantinople mint</p><p>1185-1195 AD</p><p>Obverse: MP-theta V to left and right of Mary, nimbate, seated facing, holding before her the nimbate head of infant Christ facing left</p><p>Reverse: I CAA KI OC to left, DEC PO TH C to right, Isaac, standing facing on the left, crowned, wearing divitision, loros and sagion, and holding cross-headed sceptre and akakia, crowned by hand of God in upper right field[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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