bby_448403 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Histamenon nomisma
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Price : 260.00 €
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Price : 260.00 €
Type : Histamenon nomisma
Date: 1081-1092
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,86 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire présentant des faiblesses de frappe et un flan court, probablement rogné anciennement
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC-XC/ + KE RO - HOEI.
Obverse description : Le Christ avec le nimbe crucigère trônant de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ/ ).
Reverse
Reverse description : Grand buste d’Alexis Ier barbu et couronné avec les pendilia debout de face, vêtu de la chlamyde gemmée, tenant un long sceptre croiseté aux extrémitées bouletés de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : + ALEZIw DES-POT Tw KM
Reverse translation : (Alexis despote).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Flan bombé (scyphate). Exemplaire en electrum.
Historical background
ALEXIUS I COMNENUS
(4/04/1081-15/08/1118)
Alexis I is the ancestor of a dynasty that would reign over Constantinople until 1204, when it was taken by the Crusaders. On a monetary level, Alexis reformed the gold coinage and created a new species, the hyperfather, a new solidus of 20 carats fine. Alexis I had to fight against the Normans. He tried to treat with the Italian republics, Pisa and Venice. At the end of his reign, he watched in despair as the Crusaders captured Jerusalem. Far from bringing together the Christians, separated by the Great Schism of 1054, this new intervention was to be the source of many conflicts between Byzantines and Crusaders..
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