Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Quant.Geek, post: 2326998, member: 74799&quot;]Love Byzantine coppers and my gallery at FORVM is full of them.&nbsp; Here is one of the plate coins from DOC:</p><p><br /></p><p><b> Byzantine, Empire of Nicaea: John III Ducas-Vatazes (1222-1254) BI Trachy, Magnesia Mint (Sear-2093; DOC 39.2) </b></p><p><br /></p><p>Obv: Bust of Christ Emmanuel, beardless and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; hold scroll in left hand. Pellets in each limb of nimbus cross</p><p>Rev: Full-length figure of emperor on left, and of St. Constantine bearded, holding between them patriarchal cross at the base of which, three steps. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds labarum-headed scepter in right hand. Saint similarly dressed, holds scepter cruciger in left hand</p><p><br /></p><p><i><i>Former Collection of the Money Museum, Zurich</i></i></p><p><i>Plate Coin from the Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection</i></p><p><br /></p><p><i><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/36484/Sear-2093.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> [ATTACH=full]471201[/ATTACH] </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in