Details

Notes

• Crack at 5 o'clock obverse
• Double struck on reverse, legend unclear
• Theodotou papers: Origin P. Donald

Object Type

coin

Denomination

hyperpyron

Metal

Gold

Region

Byzantium

State

Nicaea

City

Nicaea

Ruler

John III Ducas (1221 to 1254)

Date

1221 to 1254

Obverse Figure Description

Christ, seated, facing, IC XC in field. Christ, bearded and nimbate, wearing tunic and kolobion, seated upon throne without back; right hand raised in benediction, holds Gospels in left. Three pellets to left above throne

Reverse Figure Description

Virgin crowning emperor, standing, facing, MP θV in upper right field. Full-length figure of emperor on left, crowned by Virgin nimbate. Emperor wears stemma, divitision, collar-piece, and paneled loros of simplified type; holds in right hand labarum on long shaft, and in left, anexikakia. Virgin wears tunic and maphorion

Reverse Legend

IW ΔWCΠOTH TW (TW ligatured) ΠOPΦVPOΓENNHTW (usually abbreviated), in two columnar groups

Citations

• DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 2 9a
• Sear, David R. Sear, Byzantine Coins and Their Values, 1987 cf. 2073

References

• DOC 4
• Sear

Provenance

• Peter Donald; ;
• Brown & Rudy Auction, ; 1980; 230-350