Byzantine coin – HCR20888

Obverse

Inscription:

Ο ΑΓΙΟϹ | ЄVΓЄΝΙΟ

Design:

Three-quarter-length figure of St Eugenius, nimbate, wearing long tunic and mantle fastened at the front, holding long cross-topped staff at his side. Siglon in middle left, within field ***Siglon: star***

Reverse

Inscription:

W . ΚΟΜΝ | ΝΟϹ

Design:

Three-quarter-length figure of emperor, bearded, wearing crown (with prependoulia), imperial tunic, collarpiece and loros, holding labarum (?) with a short shaft and cross-topped orb. Hand of God emerging from segment of the heavens, blessing the emperor, in upper right field

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Coin of the Byzantine Empire at Trebizond

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire at Trebizond

Person

John II, Byzantine emperor at Trebizond, 1280-1297

Dating

1280-1297

Mint

Trebizond (Byzantine)

Denomination

Aspron

Metal

silver

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

2.21

Axis

Diameter (mm)

20.7

Acquisition method

purchase ('bought')

Acquisition date

8/2014

Source

Peter Donald

Hoard name

BXL

Hoard name

Bruxelles Hoard

Reference

missing : pl. LXVIII, no. 3

Note:

[Sabatier]

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. 266, no. 32

Reference

O. Retowski - 1974 - Die Münzen Der Komnenen von Trapezunt : p. 89, nos 59 and 62 (siglon), p. 90, no. 64 (siglon)

Reference

Simon Bendall - 2015 - An Introduction to the Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond : p. 45, no. 33a

Contributors to this coin record

abashir, jbaker, nristovska, cgallacher