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Price : 55.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1143-1180
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : billon
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement large et ovale, bombé. Usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : La Vierge nimbé assise de face sur un siège, vêtue du pallium et du maphorium, tenant des deux mains un nimbe orné de la tête de l’enfant Jésus.
Obverse legend : MR - QU.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse description : Manuel Ier est couronné, vêtu du divitision et du loros, tenant le labarum de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : [MANuHA - DESPOTH].
Reverse translation : (Manuel despote).
Commentary
Poids léger. Au revers, le vêtement de Manuel Ier est richement décoré. Le divitision est orné de huit globules. Le globe crucigère est surmonté de la croix patriarcale. Le labarum est pointé en cœur.
Historical background
MANUEL I KOMNENOS
(8/04/1143-24/09/1180)
The very long reign of Manuel I marks the last Byzantine burst before the fall of 1204. Impregnated with Latin culture, he had to face the second crusade (1147-1149), led by Louis VII of France who, with the help of the Normans of Roger II, attacked Byzantium. The Normans seized part of Greece (Corinth and Thebes). Louis VII had to return to France just before divorcing Eleanor of Aquitaine. Manuel was the son-in-law of Conrad III and Frederic Barbarossa was his sworn enemy. The Emperor of Germany urged the Sultan of Iconium to revolt against the Byzantines who were crushed at the battle of Myrioscephalon in 1176. After a reign of 37 years, Manuel died out in 1180, leaving Byzantium weakened, easy prey for Christians and Muslims.
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