Unknow trachy to ID

[jgad]

This coin was in a large group I recently purchased.  Do not yet have in hand so no dimension data available.  The obverse is a hot mess but the reverse is very nice with the figure wearing very distinctive robes.  Can anyone identify this coin with only the pic to go on?



- javier

[Abu Galyon]

Hmm ... looks like a brockage of Hendy Type B (SBCV 2022). Either that or we have just discovered a previously unknown left-handed Byzantine emperor, who also drapes his chlamys over the wrong shoulder. Or is it possible (since you don't have the coin in hand) that somehow the photos got horizontally flipped?


Bill R.

[jgad]

Thanks for the quick reply Bill.  Why would the "reverse" brockage image be so much cleaner and clearer than the strike?

- Javier

[Abu Galyon]

Hi Javier,

I've no idea how a brockage would even work with a trachy. Never seen one before, if this is one. I've amended my first post to include the suggestion that somehow maybe the photo got muddled.

Bill R.

[jgad]

Bill...

somehow I didn't see the entirety of your reply.  I do not have the coin in hand and its entirely possible the image has been flipped.  Assuming the image has been flipped (ochams razor and all that) then who is the probable emperor?

- Javier

[Abu Galyon]

If it's flipped, i.e. just a normal SBCV 2022, then it dates from the Latin occupation of Constantinople following the Fourth Crusade. Though the legend (if you could read it) would be appropriate for Manuel I Comnenus:        or similar.

Bill R.

[jgad]

Thanks Bill!

If it turns out the coin is representing a left handed emperor I will repost with dimensions....

- Javier