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Byzantine coin – HCR95492

Obverse

Inscription:

IC ?

Design:

Full-length figure of Christ wearing tunic and himation, in mandorla. Sigla in middle left and right

Reverse

Inscription:

M / N | H / Λ

Design:

Three-quarter-length figure of emperor, wearing hemispherical crown (with prependoulia), imperial tunic (sakkos), collar-piece, and loros, holding cross-topped sceptre in left hand

Information

Period

Byzantine

Category

Late Byzantine billon coin

Group

Authority

Byzantium: empire

Person

Manuel II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor, 1391-1425

Dating

1395-1399

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denomination

Tornese (late Byzantine)

Metal

billon

Technique

struck

Measurements
Acquisition
Additional information
Ticket
References
Credit

Weight (g)

0.75

Diameter (mm)

16

Acquisition method

gift

Acquisition date

2001

Source

Simon Bendall

Reference

S. Bendall and P.J. Donald - 1979 - The Later Palaiologan Coinage : pp. 166-167, no. 12

Reference

S. Bendall - 1988 - A Private Collection of Palaeologan Coins : p. 66, no. 342

Reference

David R. Sear - 2006 - Byzantine Coins and their Values : p. 473, no. 2560

Reference

P. Grierson - 1999 - Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and the Whittemore collection. Volume Five. Michael VIII to Constantine XI 1258-1453 : p. 223, class I, and pl. 80, nos 1603-1609

Reference

E. Lianta - 2009 - Late Byzantine Coins 1204-1453 in the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford : p. 305, no. 1025

Reference

J. Baker et al - 2017 - The Reformed Byzantine Silver-Based Currencies (ca. 1372-1379) in the Light of the Hoards from the Belgrade Gate : p. 314

Contributors to this coin record

cgallacher, jbaker, nristovska