Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2
      Lot: 514

    ROMAN EMPIRE: Andronicus I (AD 1183-1185). Electrum 
      hyperpyron (4.31 gm). Constantinople. QKE ROHQEI, Virgin 
      orans, standing facing on dais, nimbate and wearing 
      pallium and maphorium; on her breast, nimbate head of 
      the infant Christ facing, MTP-QV on either side of 
      Virgin's head / ANDPONIKW DECPOTH, Christ, bearded and 
      with nimbus cruciger, on right, and Andronicus, with 
      forked beard, on left, both standing facing; Christ 
      wears pallium and colobium, holds book of Gospels in 
      left hand and with right crowns the emperor, who holds 
      labarum in right hand and akakia in left. BN 1-4. Hendy 
      pl. 18, 11-12. Sear 1984. 
Estimated Value: $ 1,100 

Gemini I Auction Closed Jan 11-12, 2005. 

Re-used by permission of Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) 
    and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com).