bby_245326 - NICAEAN EMPIRE - JOHN III DUCAS Aspron trachy (scyphate)
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Price : 250.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1222-1254
Mint name / Town : Magnésie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier et échancré. Usure très importante au droit. Joli revers. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Le Christ trônant de face sur un siège sans dossier, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse description : Jean III couronné, vêtu du divitision, du loros et du sagion, tenant de la main gauche l’akakia et de la main droite le labarum ; dans le champ à gauche, un astre à six rais.
Reverse legend : [Iw/ DESPOTHS O DUKAS]
Reverse translation : (Jean despote Ducas).
Commentary
Exemplaire fortement bombé (scyphate). Semble en argent de bon titre. Ce type semble bien plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
A highly domed specimen (scyphate). Appears to be made of good quality silver. This type appears to be much rarer than general works suggest.
A highly domed specimen (scyphate). Appears to be made of good quality silver. This type appears to be much rarer than general works suggest.
Historical background
NICAEAN EMPIRE - JOHN III DUCAS
(1222-3/11/1254)
Jean III Ducas Vatatzès or Jean I of Nicaea is the son-in-law of Théodore Lascaris, the founder of the dynasty. He continued the work of his predecessor and was one of the greatest rulers in Byzantine history. He succeeded in containing his competitors: the Emperor of Thessaloniki, the Tsar of the Bulgarians (Asên II) and the Latin Empire whose life was already dependent on the disunity between its enemies. Spared in extremis by the Mongol deluge, Nicaea took advantage of the weakening of its neighbors. Despite the wars, John III raised the economy of the country and Nicaea experienced a well-being such as the Byzantine Empire had not had for a long time..
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