MK-B | Byzanz: Johannes Comnenus Ducas 1242-1244

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Byzanz: Johannes Comnenus Ducas 1242-1244
	Berlin, Münzkabinett der Staatlichen Museen Münzkabinett, Vault
Obverse	[IWAN]NIC / ΔECΠOTHC. Johannes Comnenus Ducas 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	O AΓHOC ΔH-HTPIOC. Der Heilige Demetrius steht in Rüstung mit Nimbus, Schwert und Schild in der Vorderansicht.
Sitter	John Comnenus Ducas (1237-1242)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	John Comnenus Ducas (1237-1242)
Date	1242-1244 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 ; 1,67 g; 21 mm; 6 h
Production	struck
Mint	Thessalonica
Region	Macedonia
Country	Greece
Publications	M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-2 (1999) 596 Nr. (38.1.) Taf. 43 (Johannes Comnenus Ducas, andere Zuordnung Vs. und Rs., dieses Stück).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
Accession	1880/62
Year of access	1880
Vendor (to Museum)	Sabbas
Object number	18295630
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