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Hyperpyron / Υπέρπυρον AV 32

SHH 6348

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3.93 g   30.7.31.8 mm   6:00 o'clock   VF Christ seated facing on throne without back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction; book of gospels in left hand; on either side of nimbus, IC / XC with overbars; double border of dots. Facing half length figures of the he Virgin nimbate on right and Ioannes crowned on left; both standing facing and holdng between them patriarchal cross; the Virgin wears pallium and maphorium; MP // ΘV with overbars to right and above nimbus; Manus Dei above the head of the emperor who holds akakia; Ιω ΔECΠΟΤH upward to left; double border of dots. Mint of Constantinopolis. Sear Byzantine 1938 Ex Hubert Lanz, 5.3.2017