bby_745995 - MANUEL I KOMNENOS Aspron trachy (scyphate)
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Price : 350.00 €
Type : Aspron trachy (scyphate)
Date: c. 1143-1180
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 30 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,64 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan large, centré, fissuré à 5h. Très joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IC - XC.
Obverse description : Le Christ debout de face sous un dais, avec un nimbe crucigère, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, tenant les Évangiles ; double grènetis.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MANYHA.
Reverse description : Manuel Ier et saint Théodore debout de face, tenant la croix patriarcale globulée ; Manuel Ier est couronné, vêtu du divitision et du loros, tenant une épée de la main droite ; saint Théodore est nimbé, vêtu militairement, tenant une épée ; double grènetis.
Reverse legend : Q/ QE/ O/ w/R/ O/ S
Reverse translation : (Manuel saint Théodore).
Commentary
Flan scyphate. Le christ est accosté de deux astres à huit rais. le vêtement de Manuel est richement décoré. Chacun des personnages du revers tiennent une épée courte.
Scyphate flan. Christ is accosted by two stars with eight spokes. Manuel's clothing is richly decorated. Each of the figures on the reverse holds a short sword
Scyphate flan. Christ is accosted by two stars with eight spokes. Manuel's clothing is richly decorated. Each of the figures on the reverse holds a short sword
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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