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Coin of Isaac II

Coin of Isaac II

r. 1185 - 1204

Isaac II

Byzantine

Obv.: Inscription in upper field. Full-length figure of Virgin nimbate, orans, standing on dais, wearing tunic and maphorion; beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Rev.: Inscription in two columnar groups. Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, and chlamys; holds in r. hand scepter cruciger, and in l., anexikakia. Manus Dei in upper r. field.

Bronze

Byzantine period, Middle

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