BB75466. Billon aspron trachy, DOC IV-1 3b var. (inscription arrangement); CLBC I 7.3.1; Grierson 1130; SBCV 2003; Sommer 65.5, VF, scyphate, Virgin's head not fully struck, edge cuts, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 3.793g, maximum diameter 28.5mm, die axis 180
o, 1st reign, 1185 - 1195; obverse the Virgin enthroned facing, nimbate, wears pallium and maphorium, holds before Her nimbate head of infant Christ,
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ΘV (Greek abbreviation:
Μητηρ Θεου; - Mother of God) across field flanking head; reverse ICA/AKI/OC - ΔEC/ΠO/T/H (or simillar, OT ligate), Isaac standing facing facing, wearing crown, divitision, loros, and sagion, cruciform scepter in left, akakia in right, crowned by hand of God above right, eight jewels on collar;
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