Description: Obverse: Virgin nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, seated upon throne with back; holds beardless, nimbate head of Christ on breast. Reverse: Full-length figure of emperor on l. and of a military saint, bearded and nimbate, holding between them shaft with triangular decoration; emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds sheathed sword, point downward, in r. hand; saint wears short military tunic, breastplate and sagion; holds shield, resting on ground, in l. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: MP ΘV (Mother of God) Reverse: ΘЄOΔOȣPOC (Theodore) OAΓIOC (Saint)
Bibliography: DOC IV.2.6.3
Notes: Pierced on reverse at 180 degrees.
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