Half Tetarteron - Iohannes II (IW DECPOT; Thessalonica)
Country: Byzantine Empire 
 Denomination: Half Tetarteron
                (1/1728) 
 Year: (1118-1143) 
 Material: Copper 
 Weight: 2.17 g 
 Shape: Round (Irregular) 
 Diameter: 14 mm 
 Type: Common coin 
 Catalog list: byzantine empire
Description:
 
Obverse
Christ standing facing on footstool, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, holding book of gospels with left hand and raising right hand in blessing.
Reverse
Bust of John II facing, crowned, wearing loros and jewelled chlamys, holding globus cruciger with left hand and labarum with right hand.
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