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bby_215648 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Aspron trachy (scyphate)

ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Aspron trachy (scyphate) XF/AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,48 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste d’Alexis au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.14  - R.2064  - Do.-  - BN/B.1  - BC.1918
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 125, 28 novembre 2004, n° 124 (165€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IC-XC.
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).

Reverse

Reverse description : Alexis Ier barbu et couronné avec les pendilia debout de face, vêtu de la chlamyde gemmée, tenant un long sceptre cruciforme bouleté de la main droite et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : + ALE-ZIw - [DESPIT].
Reverse translation : (Alexis despote).

Commentary

Exemplaire en argent ou en billon d’après les ouvrages de référence, légèrement jaune (trace d’or).

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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