Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 2703

Price realized: 280 CHF   (Approx. 318 USD / 294 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
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Lot description:


John II Comnenus, 1118-1143. Hyperpyron (Gold, 29 mm, 4.28 g, 6 h), Constantinopolis. IC - XC Christ, nimbate, seated facing on throne without back, wearing pallium and colobium, raising his right hand in benediction and holding book of Gospels in his left. Rev. [+IⲰ ΔЄCΠΟTH] (MHP) - [ΘV] Half-length busts of John II, on the left, wearing loros, holding akakia in his right hand and patriarchal cross together with Virgin Mary, standing facing on the right, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium; above the head of the emperor, manus Dei. SB 1938. Edge crack and scrapes, otherwise, very fine.


From a European collection, formed before 2005.

Starting price: 50 CHF