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Tetarteron - Isaac Komnenos Usurpation of Cyprus
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire |
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| Year | 1187-1191 |
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| Composition | Bronze |
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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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| Obverse lettering | IC XC O / Є / MM / A N / δ / H / Λ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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