Ioannes III Ducas Vatatzes   Magnesia
Imperium Byzantinum
Ιωάννης Γ' Δουκάς Βατατζής   Μαγνησία
Βυζαντινή Αυτοκρατορία

Trachy / Τραχύ BL 29

SHH 3826

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3.29 g   26.5-30.4 mm   6:00 o'clock    VF Full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; right hand raised in benediction, holding Book of Gospels in left hand; IC / XC with overbars either side of nimbus; border line. Figure of Ioannes on left, and of Virgin nimbate, holding between them patriarchal cross; emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds in right hand labarum-headed sceptre; the Virgin wears tunic and maphorion; border line. Mint of Magnesia. Double strike. Dumbarton Oaks IV/2 38; Κάντας ΝΜΑ 41.2; Sear Byzantine 2092