Details

Notes

• Inscriptions damaged (ΛΝΟΗΛ ΔΕCΠΟ).
• Donald's note: Found in Bulgaria

Object Type

coin

Denomination

billon trachy

Metal

Billon

Region

Bulgaria

State

Stara Zagora

City

Augusta Traina/Beroe/Stara Zagora

Ruler

Bulgarian Imitative Coinage (1195 to 1215)

Date

1195 to 1200

Obverse Figure Description

Christ, seated, facing, I̅C̅ X̅C̅ in field. Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; holds Gospels in left hand. Asterisk above cushion of throne, to either side

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor and Virgin, standing, facing, M̅P̅ Θ̅V̅or M̅ Θ̅ in upper right field. Full-length figure of emperor on left, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum-headed scepter (occasionally scepter cruciger), and in left, globus cruciger. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion

Reverse Legend

MANOHΛ ΔΕCΠΟΤ

Citations

• DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 vol. IV, part 1, p. 437 1a
• Iurukova, Iordanka Iurukova, Bŭlgarski srednovekovni pechati i moneti, 1990 p. 192 A
• Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie, Ivan Yordanov, Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie v Srednovekovna Balgariya, 1984 p. 52 A, tabl. II.1
• CLBC I, Robert Wachter, Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins 1081-1453 Volume I, 2011 pp. 249-250 10.1.1

References

• DOC 4
• Iurukova
• Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie
• CLBC I