THEODORE SILVER TRACHY – SUPERB VIRGIN ORANS & SAINT DEMETRIUS WITH EMPEROR ISSUE FROM THESSALONICA – MINT STATE NGC GRADED BYZANTINE COIN (Inv. 20084)

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20084. BYZANTINE – EMPIRE OF THESSALONICA. THEODORE, ca. AD 1224–1230.
Silver Trachy, 4.30 g, 31 mm. Issue of Thessalonica, struck ca. AD 1227.
Obv. IAΓ/IOC/Θ – PH/TH/CA on either side of the Virgin orans, MHP–ΘV flanking her head. Rev. ΘЄOΔωPOC ΔЄCΠO OΛΓIOC Δ[IM], Theodore, facing on left, and Saint Demetrius, in military attire, standing right, both holding a model of the city and its walls; manus Dei above, crowning Theodore.
Sear 2159.
NGC graded MINT STATE, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” a superlative example of this often poorly struck emission, with full details on obverse and reverse.