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Byzantine coin – HCR20889

Obverse

Inscription:

. V | ΓΕΝΙΟϹ

Design:

Full-length figure of St Eugenius, nimbate, wearing long tunic and mantle fastened at the front, holding long cross-topped (?) staff at his side

Reverse

Inscription:

. | ΝΟϹ

Design:

Three-quarter-length figure of emperor, 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. Siglon in bottom right, within field ***Siglon: David's star***

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)

2.76

Axis

6

Diameter (mm)

23.3

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. 269, nos 47-48

Reference

O. Retowski - 1974 - Die Münzen Der Komnenen von Trapezunt : p. 97, no. 102, pl. VIII (siglon), p. 99, nos 119-120 (siglon), and p. 100, no. 121 and 124 (siglon), [and other]

Reference

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

Contributors to this coin record

abashir, jbaker, nristovska, cgallacher