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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |The Restored Empire| > |Andronicus II| > BZ89545
Byzantine Empire, Andronicus II Palaeologus and Michael IX, 21 May 1295 - 12 October 1320 A.D.
|Andronicus| |II|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Andronicus| |II| |Palaeologus| |and| |Michael| |IX,| |21| |May| |1295| |-| |12| |October| |1320| |A.D.|, A brave and energetic soldier willing to make personal sacrifices to pay or encourage his troops, Michael IX was generally unable to overcome his enemies and is the only Palaiologan emperor to predecease his father. Michael IX's premature death at age 43 was attributed in part to grief over the accidental murder of his younger son Manuel Palaiologos by retainers of his older son and co-emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.
BZ89545. Silver basilikon, DOC V 511; B-D LPC p. 66, 6; Bendall PCPC 134; Lianta 766, Grierson 1306; SBCV 2402 (noted var.), Sommer -, Ratto -, VF, toned, bumps and marks, slightly off center, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 1.996g, maximum diameter 20.6mm, die axis 180o, 1304 - 12 Oct 1320 A.D.; obverse KVPIE - BOHΘEI (Lord, help [the emperors]) clockwise from upper right, Christ enthroned facing on backless throne, raising right in benediction, gospels in left hand, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation for Jesus Christ ) flanking head, small dot by each elbow of Christ (sigla); reverse ANΔPONIKOC - MIXAHΛ ΔECΠO (Andronicus [and] Michael, despots) clockwise from lower left, Andronicus and Michael standing facing, each holding labarum on base between them, O on shaft below banner; from the Robert Watcher Collection; rare reverse legend; SOLD










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