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Hyperpyron / Υπέρπυρον AV 31

SHH 6347

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4.35 g   30.7-31.8 mm   6:00 o'clock   VF Christ seated facing on throne with back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium; 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 globus cruciger in left hand; MP / ΘV with overbars retrograde to right and between their heads; Ιω (with overbar) // ΔEC // ΠΟ // ΤH to left; double border of dots. Mint of Constantinopolis. Sear Byzantine 1940 Ex Hubert Lanz, 5.3.2017