Live auction - bby_912397 - MANUEL I KOMNENOS Aspron trachy (scyphate)
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Live starting : Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1143-1180
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 32 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,02 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Légère double frappe au droit sur le buste de la Vierge. Magnifique revers, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
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Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection P.-R. B
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 : (Mère de Dieu).
Reverse
Reverse legend : INSCRIPTION NON VISIBLE.
Reverse description : Manuel Ier et saint Théodore debout de face, tenant le labarum bouleté ; Manuel Ier est couronné, vêtu du divitision et du loros, tenant un l’akakia de la main droite ; saint Théodore est nimbé, vêtu militairement, tenant un globe.
Reverse translation : (Manuel desposte, saint Théodore).
Commentary
Flan scyphate. Électrum de couleur jaunâtre (or). Très belle représentation de la Vierge avec l’enfant Jésus. Au revers, le vêtement de Manuel est richement décoré. Six globules sur la pan du divitision de Manuel. Labarum 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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