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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;BenSi, post: 3355091, member: 95174&quot;]I thought Isaac II was not that bad, but Isaac from Cyprus, the pretend ruler was a villain, he ruled Cyprus Illegally 1185-91AD , he was defeated by Richard the Lionheart and when Isaac asked for one thing &quot; Not to be put into irons, Richard obliged and put in him in chains of silver.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]888275[/ATTACH]</p><p><b> ISAAC COMNENUS OF CYPRUS AG TETARTERON S-1999 DOC 10B CLBC 6.3.7 </b></p><p>OBV Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; r hand raised in benediction holds scroll in l. Pellet in each limb of nimbus cross.</p><p><br /></p><p>REV Full length figure of emperor on RIGHT. crowned by virgin nimbate on l.. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in L hand scepter cruciger and in r. anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.</p><p>Size 18.72mm</p><p><br /></p><p>Weight 2.9gm</p><p>This issues in Cyprus have a small amount of silver in them 1.5% make them more related to the Metropolitan issue of the empire.</p><p><br /></p><p>DOC list 1 examples with a weight of 2.84 gm and sized at 19mm</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of my rarest of coins, I am actually afraid of cleaning it in case I do any damage, only one or two others are known.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the normal version.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]888280[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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