Period
Byzantine
Person
Andronikos II, Byzantine emperor, 1282-1328, Michael IX, Byzantine emperor, 1294-1320
Mint
Constantinople (Byzantine)
Denom.
hyperpyron
Dating
1294-1303
Obverse
MP ΘY (?), Half-length figure of Virgin nimbate and orans, wearing tunic and maphorion, within the walls of Constantinople with six towers. Legend or cross in upper left and right field, above hands. Sigla in top left and bottom left and right within the walls
***Siglon DOC, p. 137, no. 89***
Reverse
M | X | A | T | H, A | . |, IC | XC, In the centre, full-length figure of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation, placing his left and right hands on the emperors' heads. Andronikos II kneeling to the right of Christ, bearded, wearing band-like bejewelled crown with prependoulia, imperial tunic (divetesion/sakkos), loros/diadema, and collar-piece. Michael IX kneeling to the left of Christ, beardless, identically dressed
