EMPIRE OF NICAEA. John III Ducas-Vatatzes (AD 1221/2-1254), AV hyperpyron (26mm, 4.30 gm, 6h). NGC MS 3/5 - 3/5, graffiti. Magnesia, ca. AD 1232. Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger with single pellet in each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left; IC-XC across fields, triple pellets in right field / I/W / ΔΕ/CΠ | TΩ (monogram) / Π/Θ, The Virgin (on right), nimbate, standing facing, wearing pallium and maphorium, crowning with right hand John standing facing (on left), wearing divitision and loros, labarum in right hand, akakia in left; MHP (ligate) above, ΘV to right. Sear 2073.

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