Byzantine Bronze/Copper Alloy Aspron trachy, scyphate of Constantinople
- Date
- 1195 AD - 1203 AD, Byzantine
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- 1989.0006
- Material
- Billon or Bronze/Copper Alloy
- Object Type
- Coin
- Coin Denomination
- Aspron trachy, scyphate
- Coin Mint
- Constantinople
- Issuers
- Alexios III Angelos
- Officina
- Has Mint Mark
- no
- Has Control Mark
- no
- Has Monogram
- no
- Has Countermark
- no
- Hoard
- Monograph 13 Catalog No.
- 1259
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-III 89.1
- Locus
- MMS-III 89.1 Locus 1
- Description
- This coin type: Obverse: Bust of youthful Christ, holds scroll IX XC; Reverse: Emperor standing, crowned by St. Constantine; both in stemma, divitision, each with labarum, gl. cr. between, legend illegible.
- Condition
- Fair
- Dimensions
- Weight: 3.15g; Diameter: 27mm.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Hendy 1969, p. 151, uncertain variation
- Author
- JDE