bby_889840 - JOHN II KOMNENOS Hyperpère
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Price : 980.00 €
Type : Hyperpère
Date: 1118-1143
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 32,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan large, centré, présentant un tréflage au droit ainsi qu’un flan légèrement voilé. Joli revers. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Le Christ avec le nimbe crucigère trônant de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, tenant les Évangiles de la main gauche ; double grènetis.
Obverse legend : KE ROHQEI
Reverse
Reverse description : Jean II couronné par la Vierge nimbée, portant la tunique et le maphorion ; l’empereur porte la stemma, le divitision, le maniakon et le loros simplifié ; il tient de la main gauche un globe crucigère.
Reverse legend : IW/ DES/ PO/ TH/ QW/ MR
Reverse translation : (La mère de Dieu/ Jean despote).
Historical background
JOHN II KOMNENOS
(15/08/1118 - 8/041143)
Jean II, eldest son of Alexis Comnenus succeeded him on the throne of Byzantium on August 15, 1118 despite the opposition of his sister Anne. His reign marks a return of the empire to the international scene. Antioch was taken over while John II's Balkan policy allowed him to win diplomatically over the Serbs. He allied himself with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in order to counterbalance the growing power of the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily. Domestically, he tried to reduce the commercial advantages of the Venetians granted by his father, Alexios. After twenty five years of reign, he died in a hunting accident.
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