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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 22021505, member: 87809&quot;]Finally I am able to post something, though it is mounted on a pin (can be easily removed but it was a gift from my father so I&#039;ll leave it as is<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>John II Comnenus Ducas, AU (or EL?) Hyperpyron</p><p>Constantinople, first coinage, ca. 1118 - 1122</p><p>30.6 mm, aprox. 4.23 g</p><p>Nomisma DOC IV-1a.2; CLBC I 3.1.1; Morrisson BnF 1 ff; Wroth BMC 10; Ratto 2094; Grierson 1064; Sommer 60.1; Sear 1938; SB 1938</p><p><br /></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-barred - (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, <i>manus Dei</i> above emerging from cloud; around +IΩ ∆EXΠOTH − Θς -barred - at right MHP barred</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1544034[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1544035[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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