Description: Obverse: Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; holds Gospels in l. hand. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of St. Theodore, bearded and nimbate, holding between them long shaft, at head of which a star; emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in r. hand; Saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: IC XC (Jesus Christ) Reverse: ...ΠOT (despot) OΘЄOΔWPOC (Saint Theodore)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.2.1
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