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Tetarteron - Isaac Comnenus (Usurpation of Cyprus)
Country: Byzantine Empire
Denomination: 1 Tetarteron
(1/864)
Year: (1185-1191)
Material: Bronze
Weight: 2.39 g
Shape: Round
Diameter: 20.0 mm
Type: Common coin
Catalog list: byzantine empire
Description:
Obverse
Bust of Christ Pantokrator facing, bearded, nimbate with three pellets in triangle within each limb of nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, holding Gospels with left hand and raising right hand in benediction.
Inscriptions on either side at bottom of nimbus, with a small cross below on either side.
Reverse
Bust of Isaac facing, wearing the stemma, clothed with divitision and sagion, holding cruciger sceptre with right hand and probably akakia with left hand.
Vertical inscriptions on either side.
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