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Lateinisches Kaiserreich 1204-1261 n. Chr.
	Freiburg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Universität Vault
Inventory no	11183
Obverse	Die Heilige Jungfrau Maria mit Nimbus steht die Händen zum Gebet erhoben (orans) in der Vorderansicht. Beiderseits MHTP - ΘV. MHTP ligiert.
Reverse	Der bärtige Christus mit Nimbus sitzt auf einem Thron im Segensgestus, in seiner l. Hand die Bibel, in der Vorderansicht. Beiderseits IC - XC. (Doppelschlag).
Sitter	Jesus Christ
Class/status	Imperial issue (medieval/modern)
Date	1204-1261 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 ; 3,50 g; 24-27 mm; 6 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-2 (1999) 685 Nr. 18 (Type R).
Item	Coin
Department	Medieval Period, Late Middle Ages
previous Owner	Heinrich Wefels 1917 - 1931
Object number	ID8686
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