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Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) BI Aspron Trachy Nomisma, Philippopolis? (Sear 1936; DOC VI.31)Obv: +KЄROHΘ ΛΛЄΞIШ; IC XC in field; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand
Rev: Δ/ЄC/ΠO/T - TШ/KO/M/N; Full-length figure of emperor wearing divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand scepter with large labarum as head - in which generally a cross; and in left hand, globus cruciger Quant.Geek

"Q" Quinarius, RRC 86A/1Denomination: Quinarius
Era: c. 211 BC
Metal: AR
Obverse: Helmeted head of Roma r. with splayed visor. Hair curl visible on far side of Roma’s neck. Behind, “V”. Border of dots
Reverse: Dioscuri r.; “ROMA” in exergue. “Q” symbol below horses
Mint: S. E. Italy
Weight: 2.11 gm.
Reference: Crawford 86A/1
Provenance: Nomisma E-Live Auction 12, October 2, 2019, Lot 2034

Comments: “Q” symbol quinarius, Not to be confused with the more common Crawford 102/2 Q quinarius varieties. Very scarce, 6 examples in ACSearch at this writing.

Glossy jet black patina(?) Some reverse corrosion, otherwise GVF.
3 comments

0116 - Denarius Octavian 32-29 BCObv/ Head of Venus r., wearing diadem.
Rev/ CAESAR DIVI F, Octavian l., in military dress, cloak flying behind, holding spear.

Ag, 20.2 mm, 3.51 g
Mint: Italy (Brundisium or Roma?)
RIC I/251 [S]
ex-Nomisma, auction e2, lot 18dafnis

1 nomisma large N in dots
beveled sides
plain back side
13 by 14 by 2mm
4.30g
wileyc

1 nomisma weight1 Nomisma weight

12mm by 12mm by 4mm thick

large N pellet above and below
pellet on each corner of N

3.7g underweight possibly filed on back side

Hendin 349-356; Weber Pg13-24.wileyc

1 nomisma weight12 by 12 by 4mm
plain on both sides

4.22g
1 nomismawileyc

1 Nomisma weightSerrated edge cut from Greek coin?
16 by 2 mm
4.29g
ref: Weber 2014, Nr.071wileyc

1 Nomisma weightLarge N
10 by 10 by 3mm
4.09g
wileyc

1 Nomisma weight12 by 12 by 3 mm
Plain both sides, beveled edge
4.39g consistent with 1 Nomisma weight.wileyc

1 Nomisma weightlarge N with four pellets below and 5 above
14 by 14 by 2mm
4.63g
1 commentswileyc

1 Nomisma weightLarge N 4 pellets above and below
14 by 10 by 4 mm
4.24g
wileyc

1 Nomisma weightLarge X
12 by 10 by 4mm
4.24g
wileyc

1 Nomisma weightdotted N
15 by 12 mm
3.43g (underweight)wileyc

1 Nomisma weightlarge N
two pellets above three below
13/12/2mm 4.11g
1 commentswileyc

1 Nomisma weightLarge N
14 by 18mm
6.35g
Overweight for a one Nomisma weight typically around 4.55wileyc

1 Tremissis / 1/3 nomisma coin weightEngraved N/four circles with dot in center
8 siliquAE/keratia
8mm/1mm 1.27gwileyc

1938 JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 1 Constantinople First Coinage SBCV-1938OBV Christ Bearded and Nimbate , wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon a throne without back: r. hand raised in benediction , holds gospels in l.

REV Half length figure of emperor on l. and of Virgin , holding between them Partriarcghal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei in upeer left field.

Size 30mm

Weight 4.0gm
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DOC lists 17 examples with weights from 4.04gm to 4.40gm and sizes ranging from 30mm to 36mm

Not a perfect example but had a wonderful Provenance, has original ticket from J Schulman coin dealers in Amsterdam before WWII, (From the start Jacques Schulman kept meticulous records of every coin and medal in his inventory, sales, and auctions. These were index cards that formed a database in the exact same way libraries kept their catalogue card index for books, and other printed materials.Simon

1939 JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 2 Constantinople Second Coinage SBCV-1939

OBV IC XC in upper field.

Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back: r hand raised in benediction , holds gospels in l.
REV Full length figure of emperor on l. , crowned by Virgin. Emperor wears stemma, divitision. Collar piece, and paneled loros of a simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Size 32mm

Weight 4.38gm

DOC lists 22 examples with weights from 3.73gm to 4.45gm and sizes from 30 mm to 34mmSimon

1940 JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 3 Constantinople Third Coinage Variation B SBCV-1940OBV IC XC in upper field.

Christ bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back: , holds gospels in l. Pellet in each limb of the cross.

REV Full length figure of emperor on l. , crowned by Virgin. Emperor wears stemma, divitision. Collar piece, and paneled loros of a simplified type; holds in r. hand labarum on long shaft, and in l., anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Size 30.57mm

Weight 4.3gm

DOC lists 5 examples of type B with weights from 4.22gm to 4.43gm and sizes from 30 mm to 31mSimon

1947 JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 1 Thessalonica First Coinage SBCV-1947

JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 1 Thessalonica First Coinage SBCV-1947
OBV Christ Bearded and Nimbate , wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon a throne without back: r. hand raised in benediction , holds gospels in l.

REV Half length figure of emperor on l. and of Virgin , holding between them Partriarcghal cross on long shaft. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds anexikakia in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion. Manus Dei in upeer left field.

Size 29mm

Weight 4.5gm

Thicker metal than Constantinople issue, very difficult to differentiate between the same issue from different mints.Simon

1948A JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 8 SBCV-1948

JOHN II HYPERPYRON NOMISMA IV DOC 8 SBCV-1948
OBV Christ Bearded and Nimbate , wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon a throne without back: r. hand raised in benediction , holds gospels in l.

REV Half length figure of emperor on l. and of Virgin , Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds hand labarum in r. hand. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion.

Size 28mm

Weight 4.61

VF

From the Peter J. Merani Collection, purchased from Glenn W. Woods. Ex Coin Galleries (17 July 1996), lot 1296. CNG 490 April 21

Thicker metal than Constantinople issue, very difficult to differentiate between the same issue from different mints.
Also John III created the same coin without a visual way to determine between the two
Simon

2 Nomismata large B one side
B=2

2/4.35=8.7g

16/14/4mm 8.7g
wileyc

210 Basil II Bulgaroktonos, AD 976-1025Gold histamenon nomisma, 25mm, 4.40g, aEF
Struck at Constantinople c. AD 1005-1025
+ IhS CIS REX REGNANTIhM, bust of Christ facing, wears pallium, colobium, and nimbus cruciger with crescents; raised right hand, Gospels in left; triple border / + bASIL C CONSTANT b R, facing crowned busts of Basil wearing loros of square pattern (left) and Constantine wearing jeweled chlamys; holding between them with right hands a long plain cross; manus Dei above Basil's head; triple border
Certificate of Authenticity by David R. Sear, ACCS
DOC 6a; Sear 1800; Wroth 12-13 Lawrence W

215 Constantine VIII, AD 1025-1028Gold histamenon nomisma, 25mm, 4.37g, gVF
Struck at Constantinople
+IhS XIS REX REGNANThM, bust of Christ Pantocrator facing, wears tunic, himation, and nimbus cruciger with crescents; right hand raised, Gospels in left; triple border / + CWhSTAhTIh BASILEUS ROM, crowned bust facing with long beard; wears loros, holds labarum with pellet on shaft with right, akakia in left; triple border. Scarce.
Certificate of Authenticity by David R. Sear, ACCS
DOC 2; Sear 18151 commentsLawrence W

220 Romanus III Argyrus, AD 1028-1034Gold histamenon nomisma, 26mm, 4.37g, VF
Struck at Constantinople AD 1028-1029
+IhS REX REGNANTINM, Christ enthroned facing, wears nimbus cruciger and colobium, raises right hand and holds Gospels with left; double border / ΘCE bOHΘ RWMANW MΘ, the figures of Romanus (left) and the Virgin standing facing; bearded Romanus wears saccos and loros, and holds globus cruciger; the nimbate Virgin wears pallium and maphorum, and with right hand crowns the emperor; double border
Ex: Harlan Berk
DOC 1d; Sear 1819; Berk 296 Lawrence W

3 nomisma coin weightN "gamma"
faint cross above
19/19/4mm
14.2 gm wileyc

AE weight (4 nomismata), marked with Golden color Chi-Rho #51,AE weight (4 nomismata), marked with Golden color Chi-Rho #51,
type: AE four-cornered weight, engraved square inside Christogram (Chi-Rho, marked with golden color), both side unredable symbols (hope Α-Ω ). In addition to the ich lines outside the 4 points (mean 4 nomismata ?).
size: 27x25x4mm,
weight: 17,83g, (4 nomismata, exactly 17.84g; 4x4,46 = 17.84g).
date: 6th-8th cent. A.D.,
ref: Not official, may be hommade,
distribution: Byzatine ?,
Q-051
"This is really a beautiful and rare weight. Congratulations!
From my point of view it is a nominal to 4 nomismata, exactly 17.83 g (4x4,46 = 17.84 g). Each side of the weight is separately punched with 4 points which means lettering for 4 nomismata.
Within the Christogram the letters Α-Ω are to be read. These were engraved faulty. No official weight, but a homemade version (see Simon Bendall). The Christogam was marked with golden color no gold inlay!
dated approx. 6th-8th cent. AD
similar weights were found in Bulgaria. by Basil, Thanks "

3 commentsquadrans

AE weight, 1 Nomisma, dotted pattern both side, dotted cross left down, and dotted rosette (?) etc..#35AE weight, 1 Nomisma, dotted pattern both side, dotted cross left down, and dotted rosette (?) etc..#35
type: Byzantine AE weight, There is a coin weight to 1 Nomisma = 4 Scripula.
The lettering N with rosette = No is clearly Greek, cross with 4 points stylized 4 scripula.
size: 13x13x3mm,
weight: 3,95g,
date: 5th.-7th. centuries A.D.,
ref: ???
distribution: Byzantine,
Q-0352 commentsquadrans

Anonymous, Sardes, Lydia, AE14, ΣΑΙΔΙΑΝΩΝ, MΛOAE Unit
Sardes, Lydia
Civic Issue
133 - 131BC
14.0mm 3.30gr 6h
O: NO LEGEND; Laureate head of Apollo, right.
R: ΣΑΙΔΙΑΝΩΝ; Club, monogram, all within wreath.
Monogram: MΛO
BMC Lydia 13; SNG von Aulock 3125.
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Featured on Wildwinds, March, 2017.Nicholas Z

Antoninus Pius, RIC 652, Sestertius of AD 141-143 (Temple of Venus and Roma)Æ sestertius (24.06g, 33, 12h). Rome mint struck AD 141-143.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III laureate head of Antoninus Pius facing right
VENERI FELICI (around) S C (in ex.) decastyle temple on podium of four steps; figure (of Venus) in the center in space between columns seated front; in pediment three standing figures in the center flanked by reclining figures; on roof, seated figure in the center flanked by two smaller kneeling figures; on angles, Victories standing front, holding wreaths in both hands.
RIC 652 (rare); Cohen 1074 (12 fr.); BMCRE 1324 var. (but no figure in space between columns); Strack 865 (3 specimens); Sear (Roman Coins & Their Values II) 4257; Foss (Roman Historical Coins) 125:23;
ex Nomisma

This commemorates the completion in AD 141 of the celebrated double-temple of Venus and Roma designed by Hadrian and begun two decades before. The two sanctuaries were placed back to back and the complex formed the largest temple in Rome. A parallel issue depicts the other element of the structure, the temple of Roma.1 commentsCharles S

Antoninus Pius, RIC 652, Sestertius of AD 141-143 (Temple of Venus and Roma)Æ sestertius (24.06g, 33, 12h). Rome mint struck AD 141-143.
ANTONINVS AVG PIVS P P TR P COS III laureate head of Antoninus Pius facing right
VENERI FELICI (around) S C (in ex.) decastyle temple on podium of four steps; statue of seated figure (Venus) in center space between columns; in pediment three standing figures in the center flanked by reclining figures; on roof, seated figure in the center flanked by two smaller kneeling figures; on angles, Victories standing front, holding wreaths in both hands.
RIC 652 (rare); Cohen 1074 (12 fr.); BMCRE 1324 var. (no statue between columns); Strack III 865 (listed in 3 collections: Berlin, Paris, Vienna; plate X 864: same obv. & rev. dies); Banti (I Grandi Bronzi Imperiali II-3) 507 (3 spec.); Sear (Roman Coins & Their Values II) 4257; Foss (Roman Historical Coins) 125:23
ex Nomisma auction 46 (2012)

This commemorates the completion in AD 141 of the celebrated double-temple of Venus and Roma designed by Hadrian and begun two decades before. The two sanctuaries were placed back to back and the complex formed the largest temple in Rome. A parallel issue depicts the other element of the structure, the temple of Roma.Charles S

Antoninus Pius, RIC 694a, As of AD 140-144 (Mars descending on Rhea Silvia)Æ As (7.9g, Ø29mm, 12h). Rome mint. Struck AD 140-144.
Obv.: (ANTO)NINVS - AVG PIVS P P, laureate head right.
Rev.: TR POT COS (III around) S C (in field), Mars holding spear and shield descends on sleeping Rhea Silvia.
RIC 694a
ex Nomisma (SanMarino, 2001 auction)

This coin is part of a series that was struck just prior to 900th anniversary of Rome in AD 147 and which depict scenes from anctient Roman legends. This type depicts the story where Rhea Silva, the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa and descendant of Aeneas, who had been forced to become a Vestal Virgin, was seduced in the forest by the god Mars. She conceived twins Romulus and Remus who would become the founders of Rome. Charles S

Apameia, Phrygia, AE Unit, ΑΡΑΜΕΩΝAE Unit
Apameia, Phrygia
100 - 50BC
22.0 x 20.5mm 5.50gr 0h
O: NO LEGEND; Helmeted head of Athena, right.
R: ΑΡΑΜΕΩΝ; Eagle standing right on base with meander pattern flanked by piloi of the discuri surmounted by stars.
SNG Cop 161
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As FELICITAS PVBLICAWeight, 10.631g; Die axis, 12h1 commentsmix_val

Aspron Trachy Nomisma Constantine Asen (Tich) Type A.Obverse: IC XC in field; Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; r. hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in L.
Reverse; Full length figure of Tsar, wearing stemma, divitision. paneled loros of traditional type and sagion, holds in r. hand labarum-headed scepter, and in l., globus.
Mint: Turnova
Date: 1257-77 CE
25mm, 2.82g
DO XLVIII 1, Type A.wileyc

Aspron Trachy Nomisma Constantine Asen (Tich) Type B.Obverse: Large cross; stars and or pellets in interstices.
Reverse: Tsar seated on throne without back, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type: holds in r. hand labarum-scepter, and in L., anexikakia. Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Mint: Turnovo
Date 1257-77 CE
26mm 2.21 g
DO XLVIII 2, Type Bwileyc

Aspron Trachy Nomisma Constantine Asen (Tich) Type C.Obverse: Large cross; stars and or pellets in interstices.
Reverse: Tsar seated on throne without back, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros of traditional type: holds in r. hand labarum-scepter, and in L., anexikakia. Manus Dei in upper r. field.
Mint: Turnovo
Date 1257-77 CE
25mm 2.09 g
DO XLVIII 3, Type Cwileyc

Baktria. Sophytes. AR DidrachmBaktria. Sophytes Athenian series. 295/3-285/3 BC. AR Didrachm (7.91 gm, 18mm, 6h) of the Oxus region. Head of Athena r. with earring and crested Attic helmet decorated with olive leaves and spiral palmette, HAEP monogram to l. / Owl standing r., head facing; to upper l., prow of galley r. above grape bunch on vine, ΑΘΕ. VF. Possibly coinage of Andragoras, satrap-usurper of Seleucid Parthia. Sophytes then ruled until overrun by nomadic Parni, c. 238 BC. CNG EA 459 #398. Nomisma Coll. SNG ANS 9 #4; HGC 12 #3; Kritt Ai Khanoum pp. 64-70; SMAK pp. 64-70; Taylor 2.14 #108-111 (a14/p?); Nicolet-Pierre & Amandry 43-51; cf. Bopearachchi Sophytes Group 1A.
4 commentsAnaximander

BCC BW20 Bronze Weight 12 SiliquaBronze Weight
Caesarea Maritima
Late Roman-Early Byzantine
12 Siliqua, 1/2 Nomisma
Obv: Flat, nearly square, rectangular
slab cut from sheet metal. Engraved
with punch, Greek numerals I and B (12)
Rev: Blank, with file adjustment marks.
AE 10.5 x 10.5 x 2.25mm.
Weight: 2.30gm.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1973
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-drome

BCC BW21 Bronze Weight 12 SiliquaBronze Weight
Caesarea Maritima
Late Roman-Early Byzantine
12 Siliqua, 1/2 Nomisma
Obv: Flat, nearly square, rectangular
slab cut from sheet metal. Punch-marked
with Greek numerals I and B (12).
Rev: Blank.
Heavily corroded and cleaned.
AE 11 x 11 x 2.0mm.
Weight: 1.93gm.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1970's
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-drome

BCC BW22 Bronze Tremissis Weight 8 SiliquaBronze Weight -
Caesarea Maritima
Late Roman-Early Byzantine
Tremissis coin weight, 8 Siliqua = 1/3
Nomisma. Obv: Flat, nearly square slab,
cut from a sheet of metal and engraved
with the Greek letter H (8). Inlaid with
silver. Rev: Blank. This unit is approx.
23% overweight in spite of some corrosion
and light cleaning. (Nominal 1.51gm.)
AE/AR 11.1 x 10.9 x 2.25mm.
Weight: 1.87gm.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1978
J. Berlin Caesarea Collection
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BCC BW23 Bronze Tremissis Weight 8 SiliquaBronze Weight
Caesarea Maritima
Late Roman-Early Byzantine
Tremissis coin weight, 8 Siliqua = 1/3
Nomisma. Obv: Flat, rectangular slab,
cut from a sheet of metal and engraved
with the outline of Greek letter H (8).
Rev: Blank, with file adjustment marks.
Cleaned and slightly underweight (Nom. 1.51gm.)
AE 9.5 x 8.5 x 2.25mm. Weight: 1.34gm.
cf. Holland, W.W.O.C.M. #74.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1970's
J. Berlin Caesarea Collection
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BCC BW52 Bronze Islamic? Weight 1/2 Dinar with Bird?Islamic or Early Byzantine? Bronze Weight
Caesarea Maritima 1/2 Dinar or possibly
1/2 Nomisma. 5th -12th Century CE?
Obv: Bird? or other figure with a circular
border in an incuse circular punch mark.
Rev: Blank. Roughly circular flattened
barrel shaped (discoid) bronze weight
in the form of two truncated cones
set base to base. File marks on edges.
Dia: 9.1 x 8.25mm. Ht: 4.5mm. Wt: 2.05gm.
No parallels in Holland W.W.O.C.M. chapter 8,
but similar in shape to his "Discoid Series"
of dinar weights.
Surface find Caesarea Maritima, 1970's
J. Berlin Caesarea Collectionv-drome

BOEOTIA, ThebesIn the late 6th century BC the Thebans were brought for the first time into hostile contact with the Athenians, who helped the small village of Plataea to maintain its independence against them, and in 506 repelled an inroad into Attica. The aversion to Athens best serves to explain the unpatriotic attitude which Thebes displayed during the Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC). Though a contingent of 700 was sent to Thermopylae and remained there with Leonidas until just before the last stand when they surrendered to the Persians[1], the governing aristocracy soon after joined King Xerxes I of Persia with great readiness and fought zealously on his behalf at the battle of Plataea in 479 BC. The victorious Greeks subsequently punished Thebes by depriving it of the presidency of the Boeotian League, and an attempt by the Spartans to expel it from the Delphic amphictyony was only frustrated by the intercession of Athens.

In 457 Sparta, needing a counterpoise against Athens in central Greece, reversed her policy and reinstated Thebes as the dominant power in Boeotia. The great citadel of Cadmea served this purpose well by holding out as a base of resistance when the Athenians overran and occupied the rest of the country (457–447). In the Peloponnesian War the Thebans, embittered by the support which Athens gave to the smaller Boeotian towns, and especially to Plataea, which they vainly attempted to reduce in 431, were firm allies of Sparta, which in turn helped them to besiege Plataea and allowed them to destroy the town after its capture in 427 BC. In 424 at the head of the Boeotian levy they inflicted a severe defeat upon an invading force of Athenians at the Battle of Delium, and for the first time displayed the effects of that firm military organization which eventually raised them to predominant power in Greece.

After the downfall of Athens at the end of the Peloponnesian War the Thebans, finding that Sparta intended to protect the states which they desired to annex, broke off the alliance. In 404 they had urged the complete destruction of Athens, yet in 403 they secretly supported the restoration of its democracy in order to find in it a counterpoise against Sparta. A few years later, influenced perhaps in part by Persian gold, they formed the nucleus of the league against Sparta. At the battles of Haliartus (395) and Coronea (394) they again proved their rising military capacity by standing their ground against the Spartans. The result of the war was especially disastrous to Thebes, as the general settlement of 387 stipulated the complete autonomy of all Greek towns and so withdrew the other Boeotians from its political control. Its power was further curtailed in 382, when a Spartan force occupied the citadel by a treacherous coup-de-main. Three years later the Spartan garrison was expelled, and a democratic constitution definitely set up in place of the traditional oligarchy. In the consequent wars with Sparta the Theban army, trained and led by Epaminondas and Pelopidas, proved itself the best in Greece. Some years of desultory fighting, in which Thebes established its control over all Boeotia, culminated in 371 in a remarkable victory over the pick of the Spartans at Leuctra. The winners were hailed throughout Greece as champions of the oppressed. They carried their arms into Peloponnesus and at the head of a large coalition permanently crippled the power of Sparta. Similar expeditions were sent to Thessaly and Macedon to regulate the affairs of those regions.

However the predominance of Thebes was short-lived; the states which she protected refused to subject themselves permanently to her control, and the renewed rivalry of Athens, which had joined with Thebes in 395 in a common fear of Sparta, but since 387 had endeavoured to maintain the balance of power against her ally, prevented the formation of a Theban empire. With the death of Epaminondas at Mantinea in 362 the city sank again to the position of a secondary power. In a war with the neighbouring state of Phocis (356–346) it could not even maintain its predominance in central Greece, and by inviting Philip II of Macedon to crush the Phocians it extended that monarch's power within dangerous proximity to its frontiers. A revulsion of feeling was completed in 338 by the orator Demosthenes, who persuaded Thebes to join Athens in a final attempt to bar Philip's advance upon Attica. The Theban contingent lost the decisive battle of Chaeronea and along with it every hope of reassuming control over Greece. Philip was content to deprive Thebes of her dominion over Boeotia; but an unsuccessful revolt in 335 against his son Alexander was punished by Macedon and other Greek states by the severe sacking of the city, except, according to tradition, the house of the poet Pindar.

BOEOTIA, Thebes. Circa 395-338 BC. AR Stater (21mm, 11.98 gm). Boeotian shield / Amphora; magistrate AM-FI. Hepworth, "The 4th Century BC Magistrate Coinage of the Boiotian Confederacy," in Nomismatika Xronika (1998), 2; BMC Central Greece -. Fine.

Ex-Cng eAuction 105, Lot: 34 225/200

2 commentsecoli

Bulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, Hendy type CBulgaria, Imitative of Alexis III, Billon Aspron Trachy, c. 1204 - 1220 A.D. Bronze aspron trachy nomisma, Hendy, p. 218, Type C, pl. 25, 2(B) (imitative of SBCV 2012 of Alexis III, 1195 - 1203 A.D.), VF, 2.419g, 28.5mm, 180o, obverse + KERO H“Q”EI (or similar), beardless nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and colobion, scroll in left, IC - XC across fields; reverse “LLESI”W“ DE”C“P Q T”W“ KOMNHN”W (or similar), emperor, on left, and St. Constantine, nimbate on right, standing facing, each holds a labarum headed scepter and they hold a globus cruciger between them. Greek magnates in Thrace probably issued the earliest 'Bulgarian' imitative types in the years immediately following the fall of Constantinople to finance their military operations against the crusaders in northern Greece. When the Bulgarians gained control of Thrace they continued production until sometime between 1215 and 1220, with issues becoming increasingly crude and smaller. Ex FORVM, photo credit FORVMPodiceps

Byzantine AE weight, 1 Nomisma, dotted N and dotted cross right up and dotted rosette left down, #33Byzantine AE weight, 1 Nomisma, dotted N and dotted cross left down, and dotted rosette(?) right up #33
type: Byzantine AE weight, There is a coin weight to 1 Nomisma = 4 Scripula (underweight).
The lettering N with rosette = No is clearly Greek, cross with 4 points stylized 4 scripula.
size: 13,1x12,8x4mm,
weight: 3,4g,
date: 5th.-7th. centuries A.D.,
ref: ???
distribution: Byzantine,
Q-033quadrans

Byzantine AE weight, 3 Nomisma, Cross beetween N and Γ, and 4 circle, #37Byzantine AE weight, 3 Nomisma, Cross beetween N and Γ, and 4 circle, #37
type: Byzantine AE weight, 3 Nomisma (?).
size: 20x20x4mm,
weight: 12,33g,
date: 5th.-7th. centuries A.D.,???
ref: ???
distribution: Byzantine,
Q-037quadrans

Byzantine coin (AE-Follis, 40 Nummia), prepared to weight, measuring wight, 1 Nomisma ?Byzantine coin (AE-Follis, 40 Nummia), prepared to weight, measuring wight, 1 Nomisma ?
avers: Bust right,
revers: "M" and E below
exe: ,size: 13,6 x15,7x2,8mm, weight: 4,032, axis: h,
mint: , date: A.D., ref: ,
Q-0011 commentsquadrans

Byzantine coin weightA bronze Byzantine coin weight for 3 solidi from the 7th century AD. N Gamma below a cross all enclosed within wreath. N = Nomisma (ie solidus), gamma = 3.mauseus

Byzantine coin weightA bronze Byzantine coin weight for 3 solidi from the 7th century AD. N Gamma below a pellet cross. N = Nomisma (ie solidus), gamma = 3.mauseus

Byzantine coin weight 1 nomismat/4 scripulafour pellets one side
11mm by 10mm by 3mm, 3.84g
(Weber, 96)wileyc

Byzantine coin weight 1 nomismat/4 scripulafour pellets one side
11mm by 11mm by 3mm, 3.71g
(Weber, 96)wileyc

Byzantine coin weight One nomismaTheta on one side?
10mm by 10mm by 4mm, 5.06gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight semuncia/3 NomismatPlain both sides
18mm by 18mm by 3mm, 13.63gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, 1 NomismatPellet both sides
9mm by 9mm by 4mm, 4.68gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, 1 nomismatsix pellets one side
9mm by 9mm by 3mm, 4w.83wileyc

Byzantine coin weight, 1/2 nomismat, 2 scriplafour pellets each side one center whole for hanging/adding others?
10mm by 7mm by 3mm, 2.27g1 commentswileyc

Byzantine coin weight, 1/2 nomismat, 2 scripulafour pellets on both sides
10mm by 9mm 3mm, 2.78gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, One nomisma weightIndention one side, slight curve
10mm by 9mm by 3mm, 3.91g wileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomisma.Plain sides
19mm by 15mm by 2mm, 5.59 gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatlarge N, eight pellets one side
12mm by 12mm by 2mm, 4.25gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatN with pellets, plain side
12mm by 12mm by 3mm, 3.92 g
(Weber, 419)wileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatFaint N, plain side
11mm by 11mm by 3mm, 4.15gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatN with pellets, plain side
11mm by 11mm by 3mm, 3.85g
(Weber, 419)wileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatfaint N, plain side
15mm by 11mm by 3mm, 4.27gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatPlain all sides
15mm by 15mm by 2mm, 5.39gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatplain all sides
10mm by 10mm by 5mm, 4.52gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight, one nomismatlarge N pellets below and above
13mm by 12mm by 1 mm, 4.25gwileyc

Byzantine coin weight? 2 nomismaFaint NB one side
16mm by 16mm by 4mm, 10,74gwileyc

Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) AR Histamenon nomisma, Thessalonica (Sear-1904; DOC VI-4)Obv: +KЄ B Θ AΛЄZ. IC XC in field; Bust of Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds Gospels in left hand
Rev: DIMITI, DECPOTHT, Full-length figure of emperor facing, on right, and of St. Demetrius, beardless and nimbate, facing to right and handing to emperor labarum on long shaft standing on globule1 commentsQuant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) BI Aspron Trachy Nomisma, Constantinople (Sear 1918; DOC VI.B25; CLBC 2.3.3)Obv: IC XC in field; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne with back; blesses with right hand in front of chest, and holds Gospels in left hand
Rev: ΛΛЄ(ΞIШ) - ΔЄC(ΠOT); Bust of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and chlamys; holds in right hand scepter cruciger, and in left, globus cruciger
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Byzantine Empire: Alexius I Comnenus (1081-1118) BI Aspron Trachy Nomisma, Philippopolis? (Sear 1936A; DOC VI.31)Obv: +KЄROHΘ ΛΛЄΞIШ; IC XC in field; Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand
Rev: Δ/ЄC/ΠO/T - TШ/KO/M/N; Full-length figure of emperor wearing divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand scepter with large labarum as head - in which generally a cross; and in left hand, globus cruciger
Dim: 26.3mm, 4 gQuant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Alexius III Angelus-Comnenus (1195-1203) BI Aspron Trachy Nomisma, Constantinople (Sear-2011; DOC 3a)Obv: Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in left hand. Pellet, or pellets, normally in each limb of nimbus cross. IC XC in field
Rev: Full-length figure of Alexius on left and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them globus cruciger. Emperor and saint wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; both hold labarum-headed scepter.Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-2) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing with nimbate cross behind head, dot in each limb of nimbus cross, holding book of gospels, a dot in center of dotted square on book
Rev: IS-XS ЬAS-ILЄ ЬAS-ILЄ to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps
Dim: 27 mm, 8.65 g

An extremely rare variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. The arms of the nimbus cross has only dots and the book of Gospels has five dots. Using Orestes H. Zervos' classifications of the Class B folles, these types were found during the excavation of Corinth. See the following paper:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-2) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034)Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing with nimbate cross behind head, dot in each limb of nimbus cross, holding book of gospels, a dot in center of dotted square on book
Rev: IS-XS ЬAS-ILЄ ЬAS-ILЄ to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps
Dim: 25 mm, 7.99 g

An extremely rare variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. The arms of the nimbus cross has only dots and the book of Gospels has five dots. Using Orestes H. Zervos' classifications of the Class B folles, these types were found during the excavation of Corinth. See the following paper:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-2) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034)Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing with nimbate cross behind head, dot in each limb of nimbus cross, holding book of gospels, a dot in center of dotted square on book
Rev: IS-XS ЬAS-ILЄ ЬAS-ILЄ to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps
Dim: 27 mm, 8.65 g

An extremely rare variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. The arms of the nimbus cross has only dots and the book of Gospels has five dots. Using Orestes H. Zervos' classifications of the Class B folles, these types were found during the excavation of Corinth. See the following paper:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Constantine IX Monomachus (1042-1055) Fourrèe? Histamenon Nomisma (cf. Sear 1830) Dim: 27 mm, 3,85 g
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Byzantine Empire: Romanus IV Diogenes (1068-1071 CE) AV Histamenon Nomisma, Constantinople (Sear 1859; DOC 1)Obv: + PΩMAN.-ЄVΔKΠCH; central figure of nimbate Christ, standing facing on dais, reaching up with both hands to crown Romanus (on left), and Eudocia (on right), each wearing crown and loros and holding globus cruciger with inner hand; IC-XC across fields
Rev: KΩN-MX-ANΔ; three figures of Michael VII (in center), Constantius (on left) and Andronicus (on right) standing facing on circular cushions, each crowned and wearing saccos and loros; Michael holding transverse jeweled vexillum in right hand and akakia in left, the other two each holding globus cruciger in outer hand and akakia in inner hand
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Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-2) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034)Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing with nimbate cross behind head, dot in each limb of nimbus cross, holding book of gospels, a dot in center of dotted square on book
Rev: IS-XS Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps
Dim: 27 mm, 8.65 g

An extremely rare variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. The arms of the nimbus cross has only dots and the book of Gospels has five dots. Using Orestes H. Zervos' classifications of the Class B folles, these types were found during the excavation of Corinth. See the following paper:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-3) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034)Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing, with cross nimbus having

with a central pellet in each arm and

in each upper quarter, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing in sling of cloak, left hand holds book, with

on cover, from beneath
Rev: IS-XS Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ in small letters to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps
Dim: 29 mm, 9.32 g

An extremely rare variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. The arms of the nimbus cross has

with a central pellet and the book of Gospels has five dots. Using Orestes H. Zervos' classifications of the Class B folles, these types were found during the excavation of Corinth. See the following paper:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003Quant.Geek

Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-4b) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034) Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing, with cross nimbus having a square in each arm and

in each upper quarter, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing in sling of cloak, left hand holds book, with

on cover, from beneath
Rev: IS-XS Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ Ð¬AS-ILÐ„ in large letters to left and right above and below cross with dots at the ends, on three steps

A common variation of the Anonymous Class B Follis. See the following paper for various classifications of the these types of folles:

Zervos, Orestes H., The Substantive Varieties of Anonymous Folles of Class B, Nomismatika Khronika No. 22/2003
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Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class B Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1823; DOC B.1-64; Zervos Type B-4b) - Attributed to Romanus III (1028-1034)Obv: IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing, with cross nimbus having a square in each arm and

in each upper quarter, wearing tunic and himation; right hand raised in blessing in sling of cloak, left hand holds book, with

Byzantine weight one Nomismaplain with scored circle both sides
9mm by 9mm by 5mm, 3.66g

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BYZANTINE, Constantine IX Monomachus, AV Histamenon Nomisma, Struck at Constantinople. A.D.1042 - 1055Obv: +IhS XIS REX REGNANTInm. Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and raising right hand in benediction, in left hand, book of gospels, the whole surrounded by a triple border.
Rev: +cwnstAntn bASILeus Rm. Bust of Constantine IX facing, bearded, wearing crown, loros and sacros, and holding labarum and plain globus cruciger. The whole surrounded by a triple border.
Sear: 1829

These coins are of a thin, spread fabric; usually, but not always, scyphate.

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