MK-B | Byzanz: Constantinus VIII. 1025-1028

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Byzanz: Constantinus VIII. 1025-1028
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	CWnStantIn bASILEUS ROm [teilweise unleserlich. Constantinus Basileus Romaion]. Büste des Constantinus VIII. mit Krone und Stola (loros) in der Vorderansicht. In seiner r. Hand ein Globus mit Kreuz, in der l. Hand ein Beutel (akakia).
Reverse	+ IhS XIS REX REGNANTIhm [teilweise unleserlich]. Büste des bärtigen Christus mit Nimbus im Segensgestus mit Bibel in der l. Hand in der Vorderansicht.
Sitter	Constantinus VIII (1025-1028)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	Constantinus VIII (1025-1028)
Date	1025-1028 High Middle Ages
Denomination	Tetarteron (Gold) Tetarteron (Gold) Byzantine light-weight gold denomination with the value of c. 22-22 ½ carats. The coin was introduced under Emperor Nikephoros II Phokas (963-969) and continued to be struck until the monetary reform of Alexios I Komnenos (1081-1118) in 1092. During the eleventh century, the coin went through various phases of debasement, with the gold content plummeting in the 1080s.
	Gold ; 4,06 g; 19 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Constantinople
Region	Thracia
Country	Turkey
Publications	Ph. Grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection III-2 (1973) 710 Nr. 4 (datiert 1025-1028); D. R. Sear, Byzantine coins and their values ²(1987) 350 Nr. 1817.
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
Accession	1912/641
Vendor (to Museum)	Dr. Jacob Hirsch (Munich)
Object number	18233192
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