bby_885066 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Tetarteron
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Type : Tetarteron
Date: c. 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,70 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré. Faiblesse de frappe au droit de dix à onze heures, et au revers à sept heures. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Croix gemmée aux extrémités bouletées posée sur deux degrés richement décorée accostée de lettres.
Obverse legend : S -F/ AL - D
Obverse translation : (Alexis despote).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste de face d’Alexis Ier de face couronné couronné, vêtu du loros, tenant de la main droite un sceptre cruciforme et de la main gauche, un globe crucigère.
Reverse legend : Tw KoMNH
Reverse translation : (Comnène).
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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