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Live auction - bby_1015397 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Hyperpère

ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Hyperpère AU
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Estimate : 700 €
Price : 520 €
Maximum bid : 700 €
End of the sale : 03 June 2025 15:31:28
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Hyperpère
Date: 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 31 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Joli revers. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IC-XC/ + KE RO - HOEI.
Obverse description : Le Christ avec le nimbe crucigère trônant de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ/ le Seigneur Dieu ).

Reverse


Reverse description : Grand buste d’Alexis Ier barbu et couronné avec les pendilia debout de face, vêtu de la chlamyde gemmée, tenant le labarum aux extrémitées bouletés de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche couronné par la main de Dieu.
Reverse legend : + A/LE/ZI/w DES-PO/T Tw KO/MN/Nw
Reverse translation : (Alexis despote Comnène).

Commentary


Flan légèrement bombé (scyphate).
Slightly rounded flan (scyphate)

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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