Byzantine Trachy

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  1. KirkCumberland

    KirkCumberland Active Member

    Anybody familiar with this one? Still searching A.jpg B.jpg
     
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  3. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    I have a couple of these to attribute as well. Good luck!
     
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  4. KirkCumberland

    KirkCumberland Active Member

    I'm not too good with these trachy ones..hard to read..
     
  5. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    My bet is Isaac II Angelus, SB 2003. Sometimes the akakia can look a bit weird, as it does here. On the right above his shoulder is the manus dei. (I'm not at all sure about this ID, though.)

    The akakia is a neat accoutrement... it was a roll of purple silk containing dust, a symbol of humanity's mortality.
     
  6. chrsmat71

    chrsmat71 I LIKE TURTLES!

    maybe "latin rules" as well? these are pretty dang hard to ID. here is one of mine.

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    Latin Empire of Constantinople. A.D. 1204-1261.

    small module trachy (21 mm, 1.8 g). Christ standing facing / Emperor standing facing with labarum and orb. SB 2035. Constantinople.
     
  7. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    Yes, and there's always the Bulgarian imitations too. Tough to be sure of worn examples...
     
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  8. arnoldoe

    arnoldoe Well-Known Member

    Theodore I Comnenus-Lascaris. Emperor of Nicaea, 1208-1222. BI Trachy. Nicaea mint. Christ Pantokrator enthroned facing / Theodore standing facing, holding cruciform scepter and akakia; star to lower left (faintly visible). DOC 6.2 var. (star to lower right on rev.); SB 2062.
    https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=241806

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  9. Severus Alexander

    Severus Alexander find me at NumisForums

    Ah! That's where that "K" and "M" come from. Didn't notice the "N". :eggface:
     
  10. KirkCumberland

    KirkCumberland Active Member

    Looks great..Thanks
     
  11. gogili1977

    gogili1977 Well-Known Member

    Looks like Isaac II Angelus, this is mine two:
    20170618_122029-Isak II-1.jpg 20170618_122055.jpg
    20170618_122131-Isak II-2.jpg 20170618_122143.jpg
     
  12. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    Here's one of my unidentified Byzantine. I think it's from the 11th century? Does anybody know? Obverse, bust of emperor or christ facing. Reverse, cross on steps.

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  13. Severus Alexander

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    What's the weight? It'll be a tetarteron or half-tetarteron of Alexius I, Manuel I, or (just possibly) John II. Looks like an IC XC around the cross, which I think would mean Manuel.
     
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  14. ancient coin hunter

    ancient coin hunter 3rd Century Usurper

    I don't have a scale but I'd guess around 4 gm. Manuel - that takes us back to the time of the crusades. He was cast as a villain in the book The Journey of Louis VII to the East by Odo of Deuil.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo_of_Deuil
     
  15. Severus Alexander

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    Tetarteron, then, SB 1976. I wasn't familiar with the account by Odo - cool, thanks!
     
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