Byzanz: Johannes Comnenus
1118-1143
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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)
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Class/status |
Imperial issue (medieval/modern) |
Authority |
John Comnenus (1118-1143)
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Date |
1118-1143 High Middle Ages |
Denomination |
Billon-Trachy Billon-TrachyA 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. |
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Billon ; 3,38 g; 29 mm; 6 h |
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. |
Department |
Medieval Period, High Middle Ages |
previous Owner |
Lieutenant general Hermann von Gansauge - 1871
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