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, BM-64/40 The Byzantine Empire and the Latin East. 12-15th Cent.
Obverse	ΘE/ΔW/PC/E [-/ MHP - ΘV -/ ...] [verderbt, teilweise ligiert]. Theodoros II. Laskaris steht l. In seiner r. Hand hält er ein Feldzeichen (labarum). Neben ihm r. steht die Mutter Gottes mit zum Segen erhobener r. Hand.
Reverse	Christus sitzt auf einem Thron. Seine r. Hand ist zum Segen erhoben, in seiner l. Hand hält er die Bibel. Beiderseits IC - XC.
Sitter	Theodorus II Lascaris (1254-1258) Jesus Christ
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	Theodorus II Lascaris (1254-1258)
Date	1254-1258 Late 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 ; 4,30 g; 24 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Secondary treatments	pierced
Mint	Magnesia ad Maeandrum
Region	Asia minor
Country	Turkey
Publications	Vgl. M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-2 (1999) 518 f. Nr. 1-4 (Jahr 1-4).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, Late Middle Ages
Accession	1850/9058
Vendor (to Museum)	Paulos Ioannes Lambros
Object number	18239532
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