★ Best Specimen Known ★

EMPIRE OF TREBIZOND. Andronicus I Gidon (1222-1235). Aspron Trachy.

Obv: IC XC.
Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing.
Rev: Andronicus standing facing, wearing loros and holding anexikakia in right hand, and St. George standing facing, wearing military attire and holding sheathed sword in left hand, both holding long patriarchal cross between them.

S. Bendall, "Andronicus I Gidon of Trebizond Again" in NumCirc CXV.2 (April 2007), fig. 1 = Gorny & Mosch 155, lot 410 var. (rev. legend; same obv. die); NAC 92, lot 1081 = NAC 75, lot 890 var. (same); otherwise, unpublished.

Extremely rare, one of three known of this type

Condition: Extremely fine.

Weight: 3.89 g.
Diameter: 33 mm.