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Live auction - bby_839032 - MANUEL I KOMNENOS Hyperpère
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 430 € |
| Maximum bid : | 430 € |
| End of the sale : | 05 September 2023 15:28:15 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Hyperpère
Date: c. 1143-1180
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : electrum
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan large, centré des deux côtés. Revers finement détaillé. Joli buste du Christ. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ nimbé de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse legend : + KE ROHQEI.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Dieu, Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse description : Manuel Ier debout de face ; Manuel Ier est couronné, vêtu du divitision et du loros, tenant l’akakia de la main droite et le labarum de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : MA/NuHA DES/PO/TH -T/w/ POR/Fu/ROG/(NH)/T.
Reverse translation : (Manuel despote né dans la pourpre).
Commentary
Scyphate. Très beau buste du Christ imberbe. Trou rebouché à 11h.
Historical background
MANUEL I KOMNENOS
(8/04/1143-24/09/1180)
The very long reign of Manuel I marks the last Byzantine burst before the fall of 1204. Impregnated with Latin culture, he had to face the second crusade (1147-1149), led by Louis VII of France who, with the help of the Normans of Roger II, attacked Byzantium. The Normans seized part of Greece (Corinth and Thebes). Louis VII had to return to France just before divorcing Eleanor of Aquitaine. Manuel was the son-in-law of Conrad III and Frederic Barbarossa was his sworn enemy. The Emperor of Germany urged the Sultan of Iconium to revolt against the Byzantines who were crushed at the battle of Myrioscephalon in 1176. After a reign of 37 years, Manuel died out in 1180, leaving Byzantium weakened, easy prey for Christians and Muslims.
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