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Byzantine Empire, Latin Crusader Rule, 12 April 1204 - 25 July 1261 A.D.
After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, the crusader army sacked Constantinople. For 57 years Constantinople was ruled by Latin princes, until the city was recovered by the Byzantine Greeks in 1261. The Latins failed to take the entire empire and were resisted by the Byzantine Greek successor states, the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus. Out of these three, the Nicaeans succeeded in displacing the Latin emperors in 1261 and restored the Byzantine Empire.BZ98881. Billon aspron trachy nomisma, Lianta 73; DOC IV-2 18; SBCV 2038; CLBC I 11.17.1; Hendy type R, pl. 27, 6-7; Sommer 68.16, VF, scyphate, brown patina, overstruck on a clipped flan, off center, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 3.232g, maximum diameter 25.4mm, die axis 180o, c. 1204 - 1261; obverse Christ seated facing on backless throne, bearded, nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, right hand raised in benediction, Gospels in left hand, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: IΗΣOúΣ XPIΣTOΣ - Jesus Christ) flanking above shoulders; reverse facing full length figure of the Virgin Orans, nimbate and wearing pallium and maphorium, MP - ΘV (Greek abbreviation: MΗTΗP ΘΕOY - Mother of God) flanking nimbus; first specimen of this type handled by FORVM; SOLD
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