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Tetarteron - Isaac Komnenos Usurpation of Cyprus
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 1187-1191 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bust of Christ Emmanuel depicted enthroned and facing, beardless and nimbate, with a pellet at each limb of the cruciform nimbus. He is vested in the colobium and pallium, raising his right hand in the gesture of benediction while holding a scroll in his left. The abbreviated Greek inscriptions IC XC appear on either side of the nimbus, with the epithet EMMANOYHL rendered in vertical legends in the left and right fields. |
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| Reverse description | Isaac Komnenos standing facing, depicted in full imperial regalia: wearing the stemma, divitision, and loros, holding a cruciger sceptre in his right hand and the akakia in his left. To his right stands the Virgin Mary, also facing, slightly turned toward the emperor, vested in the pallium and maphorium, and extending her right hand to crown him. The inscription ICAAKIOC ΔЄCПOTIC appears at the top of the field between their heads, with further vertical inscriptions in the lateral fields identifying the figures. |
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| Mintage | ND (1187-1191) |
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