MK-B | Nicäa: Theodorus II. Lascaris 1254-1258

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Nicäa: Theodorus II. Lascaris 1254-1258
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Coin Gallery Bode-Museum Room 243, BM64/41 The Byzantine Empire and the Latin East. 12-15th Cent.
Obverse	Theodoros II. Laskaris steht in der Vorderansicht mit einem Feldzeichen (labarum) in seiner r. Hand und einen Kreuzglobus mit Patriarchenkreuz auf seiner l. Hand.
Reverse	A/Γ/I[...] - Θ/E/O/Δ[...] [Hagios Theodoros]. Der Heilige Theodoros steht in Rüstung in der Vorderansicht. In seiner r. Hand hält er einen Speer und in seiner l. Hand einen Schild.
Sitter	Theodorus II Lascaris (1254-1258)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	Theodorus II Lascaris (1254-1258)
Date	1254-1258 Late 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 ; 3,72 g; 28 mm; 5 h
Production	struck
Mint	Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Region	Kleinasien
Country	Turkey
Publications	B. Kluge, Numismatik des Mittelalters (2007) Nr. 1473 (dieses Stück); M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-2 (1999) 524 f. Nr. 11 a-b (Magensia, 1254-1258).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, Late Middle Ages
Accession	1909/141
Year of access	1909
Find place	Turkey, Pergamon
Object number	18239526
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