Shows the emperor seated on a backless throne, wearing the loros and a crown and holding a labarum and a globus cruciger, the inscription encircling him reads: Balduinus Dei gratia imp(er)at[or] Ro[maniae] se[mp(er) au]gu(stus)? (Baldwin, by the…
Shows the emperor on horseback, wearing armor and holding a scepter, the inscription reads: Βαλδουῖνος [δεσπότης πορφυρογέννητος Φλάν]τρας? (Baldwin of Flanders, despotes and Porphyrogennetos)
Grandson of Andronikos I, and the brother of the first emperor of Trebizond, Alexios I Komnenos (1204-22), whom David helped take the throne. David was killed while defending Sinope from an attack by the Seljuqs in 1214.
