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                        Lot: 515

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                        ROMAN EMPIRE: Isaac Comnenus. Usurper in Cyprus AD 
                        1184-1191. Electrum aspron trachy (4.67 gm).

                        ROMAN EMPIRE: Isaac Comnenus (usurper in Cyprus, AD 
                        1184-1191). Electrum aspron trachy (4.67 gm). Virgin 
                        enthroned facing, nimbate and wearing pallium and 
                        maphorium, holding in front of her the infant Christ, 
                        MTP-QV on either side of Virgin's head / I/CA/AKI/OC on 
                        left, D/EC/P on right, Isaac standing facing, wearing 
                        crown and chlamys, holding cruciform scepter in right 
                        hand and akakia in left. BN 1. Hendy pl. 19, 5. Sear 
                        1990. Extremely rare. Finest coin of this issue. Face of 
                        Virgin lightly struck. Mint state 


                        Estimated Value: $ 4,000 




...Sold for $6,000 USD [ approx 4560 EUR, 3180 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).