bby_943088 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Tetarteron
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Type : Tetarteron
Date: c. 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 12,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais et quadrangulaire à l’usure importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Patine noire
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Jésus Christ en pied de face, vêtue du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse description : Alexis Ier debout de face couronné couronné, vêtu de la chlamyde gemmée, tenant de la main droite un labarum et de la main gauche, un globe crucigère.
Reverse legend : [AL] - DES
Reverse translation : (Alexis Despote).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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