SH00970. Bronze tetarteron, DOC IV-1 7; CLBC I 6.3.3 (R4); Hendy pl., 19, 14; Morrisson BnF 63/Ch(B)02; Wroth BMC p. 596, note 1; SBCV 1994; Ratto -, VF, Nicosia(?) mint, weight 3.40g, maximum diameter 20.0mm, die axis 180
o, 1184 - 1191 A.D.; obverse bust of Christ facing, bearded, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, Gospels in left hand; reverse ICAAKIOC ΔEC or similar, Comnenus bust facing, wearing crown, divitision and sagion, holding cruciform scepter in left hand, akakia in right hand;
countermark on obverse at 10:00 (possibly of Richard the Lionheart);
rare;
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