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<p>[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7439401, member: 96635"][USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER] also made me aware of these very interesting Metropolitan issues, and because of him I now know I got a couple of these issues in my collection. I have never heard the term in auctions, but auction houses tend to generalize things, I guess there are not that many Byzantine cataloguers.</p><p><br /></p><p>Do we actually call these BI Tetarteron rather than AE tetarteron then [USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER]? I am not sure when to start calling something billon, but I guess this 2-4% did had increased value. I am sure some bronze coins carry <1% silver as well as trace element. Do we know how many Bronze tetartera make 1 metropolitan tetarteron?</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of my examples:</p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/yGI9bXg.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). Æ ‘Metropolitan’ Tetarteron. Constantinople, circa 1152-1160.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> MHP - ΘV Theotokos, nimbate, standing to right, wearing pallim and maphorium, rising her hands toward manus Dei in the upper field to left.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> MAN૪HΛ ΔЄCΠΟΤΗC Manuel I Comnenus standing facing, crowned and wearing loros, holding labarum in his right hand and akakia in his left.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> DOC 15. SB 1968.</p><p>3.97g</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/Y8XHUzp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118). Æ ‘Metropolitan’ Tetarteron. Constantinople, AD 1092-1118.</b></p><p><b>Obverse:</b> Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion holding gospels (open) in left hand.</p><p><b>Reverse:</b> Alexius bust facing wearing stemma, divitision, collar piece and paneled loros of simplified type and holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter and in l. hand Globus crucifer.</p><p><b>Reference:</b> S-1920; DOC 33; CLBC 2.4.1; Grierson 1042</p><p>4.32g[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Pavlos, post: 7439401, member: 96635"][USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER] also made me aware of these very interesting Metropolitan issues, and because of him I now know I got a couple of these issues in my collection. I have never heard the term in auctions, but auction houses tend to generalize things, I guess there are not that many Byzantine cataloguers. Do we actually call these BI Tetarteron rather than AE tetarteron then [USER=95174]@BenSi[/USER]? I am not sure when to start calling something billon, but I guess this 2-4% did had increased value. I am sure some bronze coins carry <1% silver as well as trace element. Do we know how many Bronze tetartera make 1 metropolitan tetarteron? Some of my examples: [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/yGI9bXg.jpg[/IMG] [B]Manuel I Comnenus (1143-1180). Æ ‘Metropolitan’ Tetarteron. Constantinople, circa 1152-1160. Obverse:[/B] MHP - ΘV Theotokos, nimbate, standing to right, wearing pallim and maphorium, rising her hands toward manus Dei in the upper field to left. [B]Reverse:[/B] MAN૪HΛ ΔЄCΠΟΤΗC Manuel I Comnenus standing facing, crowned and wearing loros, holding labarum in his right hand and akakia in his left. [B]Reference:[/B] DOC 15. SB 1968. 3.97g [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Y8XHUzp.jpg[/IMG] [B]Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118). Æ ‘Metropolitan’ Tetarteron. Constantinople, AD 1092-1118. Obverse:[/B] Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion holding gospels (open) in left hand. [B]Reverse:[/B] Alexius bust facing wearing stemma, divitision, collar piece and paneled loros of simplified type and holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter and in l. hand Globus crucifer. [B]Reference:[/B] S-1920; DOC 33; CLBC 2.4.1; Grierson 1042 4.32g[/QUOTE]
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