Details

Notes

• Inscriptions obscure. Constantine's labarum is missing.
• Donald's note: found with other certainly Latin pieces. Style superior to the Bulgarian imitatives

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

1202 to 1215

Obverse Figure Description

Christ, bust, facing, I̅C̅ X̅C̅ in field. Beardless, nimbate bust of Christ, wearing tunic and kolobion; holds scroll in left hand

Obverse Legend

KERO ΗΘΕΙ

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor and St. Constantine, standing, facing, Full-length figure of emperor, on left, and of St. Constantine nimbate, holding between them globus cruciger. Emperor and saint each wear stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and jeweled loros of simplified type, and hold labarum-headed scepter (occasionally scepter cruciger or jeweled). Loros-waists composed of five jewels

Reverse Legend

ΑΛΕΖΙωΔΕC Ο Τ/ω/Κ ΚΟΜΝΗΝω

Citations

• DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. IV, part 1, p. 442 3b
• Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie, Ivan Yordanov, Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie v Srednovekovna Balgariya, 1984 p. 53 C, var. B, tabl. II.5
• CLBC I, Robert Wachter, Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins 1081-1453 Volume I, 2011 p. 253 10.3.1

References

• DOC 4
• Moneti i Monetno Obrashtenie
• CLBC I

Provenance

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; 21.10.1954;