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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |The Restored Empire| > |Andronicus II| > BZ89913
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.|, Although a brave and energetic soldier, Michael IX was defeated again and again. He made peace with Bulgaria by marrying his daughter to the Bulgarian emperor. After another defeat, he retired to Thessalonica, where his premature death at age 43 was in part due to grief over the accidental murder of his younger son Manuel by retainers of his older son Andronikos III.
BZ89913. Copper assarion, Lianta 800, SBCV 2440, Bendall PCPC 172 var., B-D LPC 41 var., Sommer 80.19 var., DOC V 699 var., Grierson 1488 var. (all var. rev. legend), VF, dark patina, uneven strike, edge crack, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 2.073g, maximum diameter 20.5mm, die axis 180o, 1295 - 1320 A.D.; obverse + / AVTO/KRATO/PEC / PWM/AIWN (Emperor of the Romans) in five lines; reverse Andronicus (left) and Michael holding labarum between them, PUHM-AIWN (HM ligate) above; very rare variety, the normal reverse has the same legend as the obverse inscription; very rare; SOLD











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