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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |John II| > BZ53331
Byzantine Empire, Alexius I Comnenus, Irene and John II, Autumn 1092 - 15 August 1118 A.D., John II Coronation Issue
|John| |II|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Alexius| |I| |Comnenus,| |Irene| |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 very rare type and two other types also 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.
BZ53331. Lead tetarteron, DOC IV-1 32; Grierson 1033; SBCV -, aF, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 3.799g, maximum diameter 16.9mm, die axis 180o, John II coronation issue, autumn 1092; obverse IΩΔECΠOT, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Ihsoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) in fields above, half-length figures of Christ (on left) and John II holding labarum between them, Christ is bearded and wears tunic and kolobion, John wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros; reverse ΛΛEZIΩ EIPHNH, half-length figures of Alexis (on left) and Irene, holding long cross between them, both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros; very rare; SOLD











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