MK-FR | Byzanz: Iohannes II. Comnenus ca. 1122-1137 n. Chr.

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Byzanz: Iohannes II. Comnenus ca. 1122-1137 n. Chr.
	Freiburg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Universität Vault
Inventory no	11135
Obverse	[IW ΔCC]-ΠOT T - ΠΦVPOΓNT [Ioanno Despote to Porphyrogento]. Büste des Iohannes II. Comnenus mit Krone, Gewand (divitision) und Stola (loros) in der Vorderansicht. In seiner r. Hand ein Kreuzstab und in seiner l. ein Globus (sphaira) mit Kreuz.
Reverse	Büste des bärtigen Christus mit Nimbus im Segensgestus mit Bibel in der l. Hand in der Vorderansicht. Beiderseits IC - XC.
Sitter	Jesus Christ John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	John Comnenus (1118-1143)
Date	ca. 1122-1137 n. Chr.
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 ; 3,39 g; 28-31 mm; 5 h
Production	struck
Mint	Constantinople
Region	Thracia
Country	Turkey
Publications	M. F. Hendy, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection IV-1 (1999) 265 Nr. 10 a (Second Coinage, Var. A - 1122-37?).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
previous Owner	Heinrich Wefels 1917 - 1931
Object number	ID8369
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