Byzantine Bronze/Copper Alloy Aspron trachy, scyphate of Constantinople
- Date
- 1143 AD - 1180 AD, Byzantine
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1977.1451
- Material
- Billon or Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Aspron trachy, scyphate
- Coin Mint
- Constantinople
- Issuers
- Manuel I Komnenos
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 1255
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Christ facing on backless throne IC XC; Reverse: Standing emperor in stemma, divitsion, loros, with labarum in r. and gl. cr. in l., crowned by Mary MΛNᴕHΛ ΔЄCΠOT MHP ΘV.
- Condition
- Worn, corroded
- Dimensions
- Weight: 3.00g; Diameter: 23mm.
- Comments
- Hendy var. A.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hendy 1969, p. 118, 4th coinage
- Author
- JDE