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Byzantine coin – HCR20845

Obverse

Inscription:

Ο ΑΓΙΟ | ЄVΓЄΝΙ

Design:

Full-length figure of St Eugenius, bearded and nimbate, wearing long tunic and mantle fastened at the front, holding long cross at his side. Siglon in top right, within field ***Siglon: cluster of three pellets***

Reverse

Inscription:

ΜΝ . Λ | Ο ΚΜ

Design:

Full-length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing crown (with prependoulia), imperial tunic and chlamys, holding labarum and akakia. Hand of God emerging from segment of the heavens, blessing the emperor, in upper right field. Siglon in lower left, within field ***Siglon: K***

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Coin of the Byzantine Empire at Trebizond

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire at Trebizond

Person

Manuel I, Byzantine emperor at Trebizond, 1238-1263

Dating

1238-1263

Mint

Trebizond (Byzantine)

Denomination

Aspron

Metal

silver

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

2.91

Axis

6

Diameter (mm)

21.9

Acquisition method

deposit

Acquisition date

1922

Source

Bodleian Library

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 : p. 239, nos 16 and 18

Reference

O. Retowski - 1974 - Die Münzen Der Komnenen von Trapezunt : p. 29, no. 28

Reference

David R. Sear - 2006 - Byzantine Coins and their Values : p. 481, no. 2601

Reference

Simon Bendall - 2015 - An Introduction to the Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond : p. 39, no. 20

Contributors to this coin record

abashir, jbaker, nristovska