Freeman & Sear - Gemini I, Session 2, lot 516.

ROMAN EMPIRE: Isaac Comnenus (usurper in Cyprus, AD 
1184-1191). Electrum aspron trachy (4.17 gm). IC-XC, 
nimbate Christ walking forward, his left arm raised in 
benediction, stars in field to left and right / ISAAKIOS 
DESPOTIC, Isaac standing facing on left, wearing crown 
and chlamys, holding cruciform scepter in right hand and 
akakia in left, being crowned by nimbate Virgin standing 
on right. Unpublished. Second recorded specimen. A 
totally remarkable type of an extremely rare usurper. 
Struck from worn dies, but extremely fine 

Estimated Value: $ 7,500 

...Sold for $8,500 USD [ approx 6460 EUR, 4505 GBP ] plus 15% buyers fee. 

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).