bby_1190364 - NICAEAN EMPIRE - THEODOROS I LASCARIS Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Not available.
Item sold on our e-shop.
Price : 30.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop.
Price : 30.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1208-1222
Mint name / Town : Magnésie
Metal : billon
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,70 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée sur un flan large. Usure importante mais régulière. Revers agréable. Patine marron-gris
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Le Christ trônant de face sur un siège avec 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 : Théodore Lascaris et saint Théodore debout de face ; Théodore Lascaris est couronné, vêtu du divitision, du loros et du Sagion, tenant de la main droite une épée à pommeau dans son fourreau ; saint Théodore est nimbé, vêtu d’une tunique et du paludamentum, tenant une épée de la main droite ; ils tiennent tous les deux, un long sceptre vertical surmonté d’une étoile à huit rais bouletée.
Reverse legend : [QEODwROS DESPo-T - O - QEODwROS]
Reverse translation : (Théodore despote et saint Théodore).
Historical background
NICAEAN EMPIRE - THEODOROS I LASCARIS
(1208-1224)
After the fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the creation of an Eastern Latin Empire (1204-1261), the Byzantines who had managed to flee the city during the capture of the city and the massacres that followed, found refuge in various parts of the Empire. In Asia Minor, the resistance was organized around Théodore Lascaris and the city of Nicaea. The Sultan of Iconium and the Latin Emperor tried to drive the intruder out of Asia Minor, but they were defeated in 1208 near Nicaea and the Sultan killed. Theodore was recognized as legitimate sovereign by the Patriarch of Constantinople. The next fourteen years were spent defending his new territory by fighting against the Crusaders and their Venetian allies. In 1222, date of the death of Theodore I, his son-in-law, Jean Ducas Vatatzès succeeded him.
Report a mistake
Print the page
Share my selection
Ask a question
Consign / sellcgbfr.com numismatists
