Byzantine coin – HCR20938

Obverse

Inscription:

ЄV

Design:

Saint Eugene standing facing, holding long cross in right hand

Reverse

Inscription:

Ιω

Design:

Emperor standing, wearing loros, holding a trilobate sceptre with his right hand before his body and with his left hand holding nothing, also before his body; star in upper right field

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Coin of the Byzantine Empire at Trebizond

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire at Trebizond

Person

John III, Byzantine emperor at Trebizond, 1342 - 1344

Dating

1342-1344

Mint

Trebizond (Byzantine)

Denomination

Copper denomination

Metal

bronze

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

1.67

Axis

6

Diameter (mm)

19.7

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

8/2014

Source

Peter Donald

Reference

Warwick Wroth - 1911 - Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards and of the Empires of Thessalonica, Nicaea and Trebizond in the British Museum : No. 2, p.289

Reference

Simon Bendall - 2015 - An Introduction to the Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond : 61

Contributors to this coin record

abashir, jbaker, nristovska, cgallacher