John II Comnenus AD 1118-1143. Struck AD 1118-1122. Constantinople
Hyperpyron AV

35 mm., 4,38 g.

Barred IC XC, Christ Pantokrator seated facing on backless throne, with cruciform nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, holding book of Gospels cradled in left arm / + Iω ΔΕCΠΟΤΗ, facing half-length figures of John, on left, wearing crown and loros, holding akakia in right hand, and the Virgin Mary, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, MP ΘV bracketing her, each gripping patriarchal cross between them with inner hand.

very fine

DOC 1a; Sear 1938.