Theodore II Ducas-Lascaris (1254-1258).

Silver Trachy. Magnesia, 1256/1257. 

Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing chiton and colobium, seated 
on throne without back, r. hand raised in benediction and holding 
Gospels in l.; in upper field l. and r., IC and XC; in lower fields 
left and right: inverted G and G.  
Rv. QEODWROC DECPOTHC A in circle, TRF D K COLCK PI (TH and TP 
ligate). Standing figures of Theodore, wearing stemma 
with pendilia and jeweled loros over chiton, holding scepter 
cruciger, and St. Thryphon, beardless, nimbate, wearing chiton and 
colobium; holding between them, labarum with long shaft at the base 
of which a lys. AR 2.38 grams, 6h. 

DOC 7; Sear 2139. 

With kind permission of Numismatica Ars Classica, Oct. 2010.