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bby_402824 - JOHN II KOMNENOS Aspron trachy (scyphate)

JOHN II KOMNENOS Aspron trachy (scyphate) AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2019)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1118 - 1143
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large, fendu à la frappe. Très belle représentation du Christ. Revers tout à fait inhabituel
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 : Jean II barbu, couronné avec pendilia, vêtu du divitsion et de la chlamyde, debout de face, tenant la longue croix patriarcale posée sur deux degrés avec saint Georges nimbé debout de face, vêtu militairement, tenant de la main gauche l’épée dans son fourreau ; double grènetis.
Reverse legend : [Iw/ DES/PO/TH - Q/ GE/wR/GI].
Reverse translation : (Jean despote saint Georges).

Historical background


JOHN II KOMNENOS

(15/08/1118 - 8/041143)

Jean II, eldest son of Alexis Comnenus succeeded him on the throne of Byzantium on August 15, 1118 despite the opposition of his sister Anne. His reign marks a return of the empire to the international scene. Antioch was taken over while John II's Balkan policy allowed him to win diplomatically over the Serbs. He allied himself with the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in order to counterbalance the growing power of the Normans in southern Italy and Sicily. Domestically, he tried to reduce the commercial advantages of the Venetians granted by his father, Alexios. After twenty five years of reign, he died in a hunting accident.

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