Politikon Coinage (Unknown issuer) 1341 – 1376 AD (?)

Tornese, Constantinople (?) circa 1341-1376 AD, AR 16 mm, 0.60 g. ΠOΛITIKON MHP ΘV Half-length figure of Theotokos, nimbate, in orans, wearing tunic and maphorion. Rev. ANΔPONIKOC O AΓIOC ΔIMITPIOC Full-length figures of emperor and St. Demetrius; Emperor, bearded, wearing divitision, loros, maniakion, and stemma with pendilia, both hands raised in supplication; St. Demetrius, nimbate, beardless, wearing body armour with pteryges, chiton, and sagion, r. hand raised in benediction and l. holding cross. Sear 2570. LBC 854-6. DOC 885. PCPC 355.
Rare. Surface somewhat porous, otherwise very fine

Ex CNG e-sale 348, 2015, 712.