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Byzantine

The Ashmolean Museum has a good representative collection of coins in all metals of the eastern Roman and Byzantine empire (AD 498 – 1453), and of its offshoots in Anatolia and the Balkans. It is rich in coins of the 12th to 15th century at Constantinople and Thessalonike, and of the so-called empire at Trebizond after 1204.

Byzantine coin (HCR61196)

Period

Byzantine

Person

Nikephoros II Phokas, Byzantine emperor, 963-969

Mint

Cherson (Byzantine)

Denom.

Copper denomination

Dating

963-969

Obverse

Monogram of Nikephoros

Reverse

Monogram

Byzantine coin (HCR61197)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

tetarteron

Dating

969-976

Obverse

+IhSXΓSREXREGNΛNTIhM, Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing, left clasps Gospels to breast

Reverse

+ΘEOTOC bOHΘ'IWδΕS, MΘ, Busts of emperor and the Virgin, emperor holding patriarchal cross between them, the Virgin touching emperor's crown with right hand. Emperor wears crown with cross and pendilia, imperial tunic, and loros; the Virgin is nimbate, and wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei above emperor

Byzantine coin (HCR61198)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

tetarteron

Dating

969-976

Obverse

+IhSXΓSREXREGNΛNTIhM, Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing, left clasps Gospels to breast

Reverse

+ΘEOTOC bOHΘ'IWδΕSP', MΘ, Busts of emperor and the Virgin, emperor holding patriarchal cross between them, the Virgin touching emperor's crown with right hand. Emperor wears crown with cross and pendilia, imperial tunic, and loros; the Virgin is nimbate, and wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei above emperor

Byzantine coin (HCR61199)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61200)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61201)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧ[ ]NICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61202)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor, bearded, wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61203)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61204)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61205)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61206)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

[ ]hSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61207)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61208)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61209)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI ST[ ]SNICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61210)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI ST[ ]CA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61211)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧSNICA, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61212)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhS[ ]XRI STЧ[ ]NICA, IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros

Byzantine coin (HCR61213)

Period

Byzantine

Person

John I Tzimiskes, Byzantine emperor, 969-976

Mint

Constantinople (Byzantine)

Denom.

miliaresion

Dating

969-976

Reverse

+IhSЧSXRI STЧS[ ], IW AN, Cross on two steps; has at centre round medallion with bust of emperor, bearded, wearing crown with cross and pendilia, and loros