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Hyperpyron / Υπέρπυρον AV 30

SHH 1561

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4.29 g   29.1-30.9 mm   6:00 o'clock   VF Christ seated facing on throne without back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium; right hand raised in benediction; book of gospels in left hand; on either side of nimbus, IC/XC with overbars; double border of dots. The Virgin nimbate on right and Ioannes on left, both standing facing; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium, and with Her right hand crowns the emperor, who wears divitision and loros, and holds labarum and akakia; M Θ with overbars between their heads; Ιω (with overbar) // ΔCC // ΠΟΤ // Τω // Π to left; ΦV // ΡΟ // ΓC // ΝΗ // Τ to right; double border of dots. Mint of Constantinopolis (or Thessalonica ?). BMC 41; DO IV/1 2; Sear Byzantine 1939 Ex Harlan J. Berk 127/???, 25.6.2002