bby_909121 - ALEXIUS I COMNENUS Histamenon nomisma
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Price : 750.00 €
Type : Histamenon nomisma
Date: 1092-1118
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 833 ‰
Diameter : 30,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,26 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, légèrement voilé, centré des deux côtés. Très beau revers, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + KE RO-HQEI// 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 ; double grènetis circulaire.
Obverse translation : (le Seigneur Dieu Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/LE/ZIW/DES/PO/TH // TW/KO/MHN/NW.
Reverse description : Alexis debout de face, couronné, vêtu du divitision et d'une chlamyde richement ornée, tenant le labarum de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la gauche, béni par la main de Dieu ; double grènetis circulaire.
Reverse translation : (Alexis Comnène despote).
Commentary
Plat. Les Évangiles sont ornés de cinq globules posés en carré centré. Au revers, huit globules à gauche et six à droite sur le vêtement. Le labarum est bouleté.
Flat. The Gospels are decorated with five globules placed in a centered square. On the reverse, eight globules on the left and six on the right on the garment. The labrum is balled
Flat. The Gospels are decorated with five globules placed in a centered square. On the reverse, eight globules on the left and six on the right on the garment. The labrum is balled
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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