ROMAN EMPIRE: Isaac Comnenus (usurper in Cyprus, AD
1184-1191). Electrum aspron trachy (4.17 gm). IC-XC,
nimbate Christ walking forward, his left arm raised in
benediction, stars in field to left and right / ISAAKIOS
DESPOTIC, Isaac standing facing on left, wearing crown
and chlamys, holding cruciform scepter in right hand and
akakia in left, being crowned by nimbate Virgin standing
on right. Unpublished. Second recorded specimen.