E-auction 207-134789 - bby_413984 - ANDRONIKOS II PALAIOLOGOS Trachy

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Estimate :	125 €
Price :	84 €
Maximum bid :	84 €
End of the sale :	03 April 2017 14:54:00
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : Trachy

Date: c. 1282-1295

Mint name / Town : Thessalonica

Metal : copper

Diameter : 22 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,81 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur flan très irrégulier et largemetn échancré entre une heure et trois heures au revers. Frappe brouillée au droit à l’usure importante. Joli revers bien venu à la frappe. Belle patine vert foncé

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.- - R.- - Do.- - BC.2373 (100£) - DMBR.79 /21 (200€)

Obverse

Obverse description : Saint Démétrius nimbé, debout de face, vêtu militairement, tenant un bouclier de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche.

Reverse

Reverse description : Andronicus debout de face, couronné, vêtu du loros et du divitision, tenant de la main droite un sceptre cruciforme et un globe crucigère de la main gauche, béni par la main de Dieu, au-dessus dans le champ à droite ; dans le champ à gauche, deux grosses étoiles à six rais superposées.

Commentary

Scyphate.Poids lourd, malgré les vicissitudes du flan. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.

Historical background

ANDRONIKOS II PALAIOLOGOS

12/1282 - 24/05/1328)

Andronicus II was the son of Michael VIII. His father associated him with power from 1272. His long reign was marked by the weakening of Byzantine power. If he was a scholar, he did not know how to manage the state. From the religious point of view, the project of religious union between the Churches of East and West was abandoned. The feudalization of the territory was generalized. From 1295, his son Michel IX was associated with him. But the latter died in 1320. He then associated his grandson, Andronicus III, son of Michael IX from 1325. The latter came into conflict with his grandfather who was forced to abdicate in 1328 and retire to a monastery where he died four years later.