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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Alexius I| > BZ95153
Byzantine Empire, Alexius I Comnenus, Irene and John II, Autumn 1092 - 15 August 1118 A.D., John II Coronation Issue
|Alexius| |I|, |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.
BZ95153. Lead tetarteron, DOC IV-1 pl. IV, Pb 37; Grierson 1035; CLBC 2.5.1; SBCV -; Hendy -, Sommer -, aF, bumps, encrustations, thick patina, Thessalonica (Salonika, Greece) mint, weight 4.375g, maximum diameter 17.6mm, die axis 180o, John II coronation issue, autumn 1092; obverse Δ/MI/TP (or similar, Demetrius, columnar on left), IW ΔECΠT (or similar, John, Despot, clockwise on right), full-length figures St. Demetrius (on left) and John II standing facing, holding labarum between them; Saint nimbate, wears garb, sword in right hand, John wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros; reverse AΛEZIW Δ- HPHNIV (or similar, Alexius, Despot - Irene), full-length figures of Alexis (on left) and Irene, holding long cross between them, both wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece and jeweled loros, Alexius holds anexikakia in right hand; from the S. Lindner Collection; scarce; SOLD










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