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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Alexius I| > BZ53332
Byzantine Empire, Alexius I Comnenus and John II, Autumn 1092 - 15 August 1118 A.D., John II Coronation Issue
|Alexius| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Alexius| |I| |Comnenus| |and| |John| |II,| |Autumn| |1092| |-| |15| |August| |1118| |A.D.,| |John| |II| |Coronation| |Issue|, Issued for celebrations throughout the Empire to honor the coronation of John II as co-emperor in 1092. This scarce type and two rare types issued for the coronation, are traditionally identified as the earliest tetarteron. They may actually be sphragidia that were distributed only to a select group of people who participated in the celebrations, or for charitable purposes.
BZ53332. Lead tetarteron, DOC IV-1 42.2 ff.; Grierson 1046 (Constantinople, half tetarteron), SBCV -, aF, uncertain mint, weight 4.317g, maximum diameter 16.3mm, die axis 180o, c. 1092 - 1093 A.D.; obverse IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Jesus Christ), bust of Christ facing, nimbate, bearded, wearing tunic and colobium, open Gospels in left; reverse AΛCE ΔEC, bust of Alexius facing, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros, cruciform scepter in right, globus cruciger in left; from Alex G. Malloy; scarce; SOLD










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