bby_610060 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Tetarteron
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Tetarteron
Date: c. 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière, parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Beau buste du Christ. Joli revers. Belle patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ de face avec le nimbe crucigère, 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 : Buste d’Alexis couronné, debout de face, vêtu de la chlamyde parée de pierreries, tenant le globe crucigère de la main gauche et le sceptre cruciforme de la main droite.
Reverse legend : AL - DESPOT.
Reverse translation : (Alexis despote).
Commentary
Poids très léger.
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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