★ Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXII ★

Andronicus I Gidon AD 1222-1235. Trebizond
Aspron Trachy AR

26 mm, 2,83 g

The Virgin standing facing, orans, wearing tunic and maphorion; MHP - ΘV across fields, star to left / Christ Chalkites standing facing, nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, right hand on chest, holding book of the Gospels in left; IC - XC O XAΛ-KHTHC across fields.

nearly mint state

Bendall, Trebizond 2; Retowski -; DOC IV p. 537, 1 (Uncertain Nicaean; electrum); Sear 2148 (Uncertain Nicaea).

Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXII, 8 October 2021, lot 968 (hammer: GBP 1,200).