MK-FR | Byzanz: Manuel I. ca. 1152-1160 n. Chr.

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Byzanz: Manuel I. ca. 1152-1160 n. Chr.
	Freiburg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Universität Vault
Inventory no	11143
Obverse	[MANV]HΛ ΔEC-ΠOTH [Manuel Despotes]. Manuel I. steht in Gewand und Loros mit Krone in der Vorderansicht. Er hält in der r. Hand ein Kreuzzepter und in der l. Hand einen 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	Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180) Jesus Christ
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Authority	Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180)
Date	ca. 1152-1160 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 ; 4,01 g; 28 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) 307 Nr. 11 a (Second Coinage, Var. A - Datierung 1152- ca. 60?).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, High Middle Ages
previous Owner	Heinrich Wefels - 1931
Object number	ID8399
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