MK-B | Byzanz: Johannes Comnenus 1118-1143

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Byzanz: Johannes Comnenus 1118-1143
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 242, BM-45/43 The Byzantine Empire 5-12th Cent. Gold
Obverse	+ IW ΔCCΠOTH [Ioannes Despotes]. Büste des Johannes Comnenus mit Krone und Stola (loros) (l.), über ihm die Hand Gottes, bekränzt von der Büste Jungfrau Maria (r.), beide in der Vorderansicht. Über Maria ΘV, im r. F. MHP (ligiert). Sie halten ein Patriarchenkreuz zwischen sich.
Reverse	IC-[XC]. Der bärtige Christus mit Nimbus auf einem Thron (ohne Lehne) sitzend im Segensgestus, in seiner l. Hand die Bibel, in der Vorderansicht.
Sitter	John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Date	1118-1143 High Middle Ages
Denomination	Hyperpyron Hyperpyron A Byzantine gold denomination of the 1092 reform of Alexios I Komnenus (1081-1118), produced until 1355, during the reign of John V (1341-1376). The nominal value of the Hyperpyron is 24 carats, its actual value is ca. 20 ½. Gold content will steadily decrease in time, down to 11 carats. Because of the concave fabric, it is also termed trachy Hyperpyron. It will remain the money of account after 1355. It was not struck under John VI sole reign (1390) or in the later years of John V (1390-1391). Also produced under the divided empire in Nicaea and Bulgaria.
	Gold ; 4,28 g; 33 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Constantinople
Region	Thrace
Country	Turkey
Publications	M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-1 (1999) 255 Nr. 1 a (datiert 1118-1122?); D. R. Sear, Byzantine coins and their values ²(1987) 390 Nr. 1938.
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
Accession	1873 Gansauge
previous Owner	Lieutenant general Hermann von Gansauge - 1871
Object number	18204130
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