

John II Comnenus (1118-1143). AV Hyperpyron. Constantinople mint. Obv. Christ seated facing on throne without back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium and raising right hand in benediction; in left, holding book of gospels. Rev. Facing half-length figures of the virgin, nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, and John, crowned, wearing loros and akakia; both holding patriarchal cross between them; above, manus dei. Sear 1938. 4.35 g. 33 mm. About EF.