THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE
Andronicus I, Comnenus September 1183 – 12 September 1185
Aspron trachy 1183-1185, EL 4.03 g. +Q K – EPO – HQEI The Virgin nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion ; on her breast, head of the Infant Christ; in field, MHP ligate – QV. Rev. ANDPONIK – [DεCPOTH] Christ standing on r., nimbate, and Andronicus, on l., standing facing; Christ wears pallium and colobium , holds Book of Gospels and crowns Andronicus who wears divitision , loros and sagion and holds labarum and globus cruciger . In field, IC – XC. DO 2. Sear 1984.
Minor traces of overstriking, otherwise about extremely fine