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Byzantine coin – HCR20892

Obverse

Inscription:

Ο Α ЄV | ΓЄΝ

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 and bottom ight, within field ***Siglon: single pellet (top), cluster of three pellets (right)***

Reverse

Inscription:

ΙW Ο ΚΟΝΜ | ΝΟϹ

Design:

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

2.64

Axis

12

Diameter (mm)

21.7

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 : p.267 no. 38

Reference

Simon Bendall - 2015 - An Introduction to the Coinage of the Empire of Trebizond : 33

Contributors to this coin record

abashir, jbaker, nristovska