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, BM46/13 The Byzantine Empire 5-12th Cent. Silver and Bronze
Obverse	IW/ ΔCC/ΠOT/ TW / ΠOP - [ΦV/P]O/ΓC/NH/T [Ioanno Despote to Porphyrogento. NH ligiert]. Johannes Comnenus steht in Gewand und Loros mit Krone in der Vorderansicht. Er hält in der r. Hand ein labarumbekröntes Zepter und in der l. Hand einen Beutel (akakia).
Reverse	MHP-ΘV [Meter Theou. MHP ligiert]. Die Jungfrau Maria mit Nimbus sitzt auf einem Thron ohne Lehnen in der Vorderansicht, vor ihre Brust hält sie den Kopf des Christuskindes mit Nimbus.
Sitter	John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Date	1118-1143 High Middle Ages
Denomination	Billon-Trachy Billon-Trachy A Byzantine billon denomination, of the reform of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118), concave, 1/48 Hyperpyron, with ca. 6-7% silver, but it will soon degrade to 2.5-3%, 1/128 of Hyperpyron. Further debasement to 2-3% silver, value drops to 1/184 Hyperpyron. Production will stop under Alexios III (1195-1203). It was also produced during the divided empire in Nicaea, Epirus, Thessalonica. Such concave copper trachea were also called Stamena according to the Florentine 14th century merchant Francesco Balducci Pegolotti. Compare DOC V-1 (1999) pp. 28, 32.
	Billon ; 3,38 g; 29 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Thessalonica
Region	Macedonia
Country	Greece
Publications	B. Kluge, Numismatik des Mittelalters (2007) Nr. 1470 (dieses Stück); M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-1 (1999) 267 Nr. 11 (Thessaloniki); D. R. Sear, Byzantine coins and their values ²(1987) 392 Nr. 1952.
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
Accession	1873 Gansauge
Year of access	1873
previous Owner	Lieutenant general Hermann von Gansauge - 1871
Object number	18204167
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