Details

Notes

• Donald's note: unpublished
• Donald's note: found in Bulgaria
• Smaller module, possible new Latin Imitative?

Object Type

coin

Denomination

billon trachy

Metal

Billon

Region

Byzantium

State

Nicaea

City

Magnesia

Ruler

John III Ducas (1221 to 1254)

Date

1221 to 1254

Obverse Figure Description

St. Theodore, half-length, facing, Half-length figure of St. Theodore nimbate, wearing tunic and breastplate; holds in right hand sword, resting over shoulder; and, in left, shield

Obverse Legend

Ο ΑΓΙΟC, in two columnar groups

Reverse Figure Description

Emperor, standing, facing, Full-length figure of emperor wearing stemma, divitision, jeweled loros of simplified type, and sagion; holds in right hand labarum-headed scepter, and in left, patriarchal cross on three steps, which he holds it by shaft

Reverse Legend

ΙW ΔΕCΠΟΤHC Ο ΔΟΚΑC, in two columnar groups

Citations

• DOC 4, Michael Hendy, Alexius I to Michael VIII, 1081-1261, 1999 Vol. 4, Part 2, p. 506 50 var. (trifurcate scepter)
• Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins 1081-1453, Robert Watcher, Volume I. 1081-1261, 2011 p. 356 cf. 11.31.1

References

• DOC 4
• Catalogue of the Late Byzantine Coins 1081-1453