John II Comnenus, 1118 – 1143 AD. Electrum aspron trachy, 
Thessalonica. 3.91 g. 

IC-XC to left and right of bust of Christ facing, with 
crossed nimbus, wearing pallium and colobium, holding
book of gospels and raising right hand. 
IW DEC PO TH Q GR WR IL (sometimes partially retrograde) 
to right and left of John, crowned and wearing divitision 
and chlamys, on left and St. George, nimbate, in military 
dress and holding sword, on right, both standing facing, holding labarum between them.

DO 8e; Sear 1951. 

Ex Sotheby’s sale 2 November 1998, 572.
With kind permission of Numismatica Ars Classica, Aug. 2011.