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Other and Uncertain Byzantine Mints

At least 15 Byzantine mints were operational during Justinian's long reign and re-conquests of Italy, Spain and North Africa, including new mints at Constantine in Numidia, Perugia in Umbria, Salona in Dalmatia, and Carthagena in Spain. Alexandretta (Iskenderun, Turkey today) was used as a mint by Heraclius during his revolt against Phocas (609 - 610) but was closed once he controlled Constantinople. Jerusalem opened briefly about 609 - 615. Heraclius also opened Seleucia, Isaura and Constantia in Cyprus. Constans II (641 - 668) opened a mint at Naples. Carthagena fell to the Visagoths about 620 and although some new mints opened in the following centuries the tide had turned against the empire. Later mints included Sardina, Magnesia, and possibly Philippopolis, and Corinth.

Byzantine Empire, Alexius I Comnenus, 4 April 1081 - 15 August 1118 A.D.

|Alexius| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Alexius| |I| |Comnenus,| |4| |April| |1081| |-| |15| |August| |1118| |A.D.||hyperpyron|
Plovdiv was originally a Thracian city before later becoming a Greek city, and then a major Roman city. In the Middle Ages, it retained its strategic regional importance, changing hands between the Byzantine and Bulgarian Empires. Around 1000 A.D., Philippopolis became the administrative seat of a newly created Byzantine théma with the same name. In 1180, Aime de Varennes encountered the singing of Byzantine songs in the city that recounted the deeds of Alexander the Great and Philip of Macedonia, over 1300 years before. In 1364, the Ottoman Turks under Lala Shakhin Pasha seized Plovdiv. The Turks called the city Filibe, derived from "Philip."
SH73347. Gold hyperpyron, DOC IV-1 20o.1; Wroth BMC 3; Hendy pl. 5, 11; Sommer 59.29; SBCV 1935; Morrisson BnF -; Berk -; Ratto -, gVF, scyphate, bold reverse, flattened, graffiti in reverse margin, weight 4.370 g, maximum diameter 32.3 mm, die axis 180o, Philippopolis (Plovdiv, Bulgaria) mint, 1092 - 1118 A.D.; obverse KE RO-HΘEI (Lord, help [Alexius]), IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Jesus Christ), Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, raising right in benediction, gospels in left, double border; reverse A/ΛC/ZI/W / ΔCC/ ΠO/T - TW / KO/MNH/N (Z reversed, MNH ligate), Alexius standing facing, wearing chlamys, four jewels on collar, no jewels along the bottom edge of the chlamys, labarum scepter with no dot on shaft in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand, manus Dei (hand of God) above right; from the Robert Watcher Collection, this is the first ever Byzantine coin from the Philippopolis mint handled by Forum!; extremely rare; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.

|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.||follis|
Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear.
BZ06204. Bronze follis, apparently unpublished variant similar to DOC II-1 180a, Hahn MIB 192, Wroth BMC 274a, Morrisson BnF 2, Tolstoi 275, SBCV 844, gVF, weight 10.45 g, maximum diameter 29.0 mm, die axis 180o, 1st officina, Seleucia Isauria (Silifke, Turkey) mint, 617 - 618 A.D.; obverse ...] hERA ST RR A (blundered legend), facing busts of Heraclius, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, smaller, on right, each wearing crown with cross and chlamys, cross between their heads; reverse large mark of value M between A/N/N/O and ΣI, cross above, officina letter A below, mint mark SELISU in exergue; from the Woolslayer Collection, ex Harlan J. Berk; possibly unique; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.

|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.||follis|
Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear.
SH06212. Bronze follis, DOC II-1 183; Hahn MIB 196; BMC 267; BN 1; Tolstoi 277; H 196; SBCV 848, VF, overstrike, reverse struck a little off-center and date and mint mark off flan, nice brown patina, weight 11.86 g, maximum diameter 30.0 mm, die axis 180o, 1st officina, Isaura mint, 617 - 618 A.D.; obverse J J N hERACL E hRA, facing busts of Heraclius, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, smaller, on right, each wearing crown with cross and chlamys, cross between their heads; reverse large mark of value M between A / N / N / [O] and stigma [II], cross above, officina letter A below, and mint mark [ISAYR] in exergue; from the Woolslayer Collection, ex Harlan Berk; very rare; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.

|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.||follis|
Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear.

Ex Harlan Berk, ex Woolslayer collection.
SH38444. Bronze follis, DOC II-1 183; Hahn MIB 196; BMC 267; BN 1; Tolstoi 277; H 196; SBCV 848, VF, weight 10.729 g, maximum diameter 30.0 mm, die axis 0o, 1st officina, Isaura mint, 617 - 618 A.D.; obverse J J N hERACL E hRA, facing busts of Heraclius, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, smaller, on right, each wearing crown with cross and chlamys, cross between their heads; reverse large mark of value M between A / N / N / [O] and Σ [II], cross above, officina letter A below, and mint mark [ISAYR] in exergue; overstrike, reverse struck a little off-center and date and mint mark off flan, nice brown patina; very rare; SOLD


Normans in Calabria, Italy, Anonymous Issue, 1060 - 1080

|Anonymous| |Folles|, |Normans| |in| |Calabria,| |Italy,| |Anonymous| |Issue,| |1060| |-| |1080||follaro|
"The obverse on this type represents an icon to which the Empress Zoe was particularly devoted, and a similar representation appears on a pattern histamenon of Zoe's brief sole reign in December, 1041." -- David Sear's Byzantine Coins and Their Values
BZ43069. Bronze follaro, MIR 10 489 (R), MEC Italy III 61 - 62 var. (obverse symbols), CNI -, Biaggi -; imitative of Byzantine Anonymous Class C folles, VF, holed, weight 5.503 g, maximum diameter 28.6 mm, die axis 180o, Calabria, uncertain mint, 1060 - 1080 A.D.; obverse three-quarter length figure of Christ standing facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium, and colobium, raising right in benediction, Gospels in left, IC - XC flanking across fields; reverse jeweled cross with pellet at each extremity, in the angles IC - XC / NI-KA (Jesus Christ Conquers); rare; SOLD


Byzantine Anonymous Follis of Christ, Class A3, Basil II & Constantine VIII, c. 1023 - 11 November 1028 A.D.

|Anonymous| |Folles|, |Byzantine| |Anonymous| |Follis| |of| |Christ,| |Class| |A3,| |Basil| |II| |&| |Constantine| |VIII,| |c.| |1023| |-| |11| |November| |1028| |A.D.||anonymous| |follis|
This ornamention on the Gospels is not listed by Grierson or Metcalf. This is the first example of this variation known to Forum.
SH58729. Bronze anonymous follis, Anonymous follis of Christ, DOC III-2, class A3; SBCV 1818; Grierson-NumisWiki ornaments -, VF, weight 8.160 g, maximum diameter 27.9 mm, die axis 180o, provincial mint, c. 1023 - 11 Nov 1028 A.D.; obverse + EMMANOVHΛ (romanized Hebrew - God is with us), facing nimbate bust of Christ, wears pallium and colobium, Gospels in both hands, to left IC, to right XC; two pellets in each limb of the nimbus, Gospels ornamented with cross with a pellet in each quarter; reverse + IhSuS / XRISTuS / bASILEu / bASILE (Greek: Jesus Christ King of Kings), ornamentation above and below inscription; rare variation; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Heraclius & Heraclius Constantine, 23 January 613 - 11 January 641 A.D.

|Heraclius|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Heraclius| |&| |Heraclius| |Constantine,| |23| |January| |613| |-| |11| |January| |641| |A.D.||follis|
Certificate of Authenticity issued by David R. Sear.
BZ06201. Bronze follis, DOC II-1 181b; Hahn MIB 193; BN 4 variant; Tolstoi 274, F/gVF, weight 11.86 g, maximum diameter 31.5 mm, die axis 180o, 2nd officina, Seleucia Isauria (Silifke, Turkey) mint, 616 - 617 A.D.; obverse legend blundered and illegible, Heraclius, on left, and Heraclius Constantine, smaller, on right, both standing facing, wearing crown with cross and chlamys, and holding a globus cruciger in right, cross between their heads; reverse large mark of value M between A/N/N/O and stigma I, Chi-Rho monogram above, officina letter B below; mint mark SELISU in exergue; from the Woolslayer Collection; very rare; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Alexius I Comnenus and John II, Autumn 1092 - 15 August 1118 A.D., John II Coronation Issue

|Alexius| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Alexius| |I| |Comnenus| |and| |John| |II,| |Autumn| |1092| |-| |15| |August| |1118| |A.D.,| |John| |II| |Coronation| |Issue||tetarteron|
Issued for celebrations throughout the Empire to honor the coronation of John II as co-emperor in 1092. This scarce type and two rare types issued for the coronation, are traditionally identified as the earliest tetarteron. They may actually be sphragidia that were distributed only to a select group of people who participated in the celebrations, or for charitable purposes.
BZ53323. Lead tetarteron, DOC IV-1 42.2 ff.; Grierson 1046 (Constantinople, half tetarteron), SBCV -, aF, weight 3.474 g, maximum diameter 16.4 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain mint, c. 1092 - 1093 A.D.; obverse bust of Christ facing, nimbate, bearded, wearing tunic and colobium, open Gospels in left, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: Ihsoús Xristós - Jesus Christ) flanking; reverse AΛCE ΔEC, bust of Alexius facing, wearing stemma, divitision, and jeweled loros, cruciform scepter in right, globus cruciger in left; scarce; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Basil I the Macedonian & Constantine, 10 February 868 - 3 September 879 A.D.

|Basil| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Basil| |I| |the| |Macedonian| |&| |Constantine,| |10| |February| |868| |-| |3| |September| |879| |A.D.||follis|
Basil's favorite son, Constantine, depicted on this coin died 3 September 879. His death embittered Basil's last years.
BZ71843. Bronze follis, Morrisson BnF 34/X/AE/1; DOC III-2 8a (Constantinople); Wroth BMC 11 (Constantinople); Ratto 1861; SBCV 1721; Sommer 33.15, Tolstoi -, VF, well centered, uneven strike, some inscription weak, weight 7.396 g, maximum diameter 28.5 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain provincial mint, 868 - 870 A.D.; obverse + bASILIOS CONST AUGG (or similar), Basil (on left) and Constantine half length busts facing, each wears crown with cross and chlamys, both holding labarum between them; reverse + bASIL/S ET COnSTAn/TINOS ENΘO / bASILEIS R/OMAIOn in five lines; very scarce; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Manuel I Comnenus, 8 April 1143 - 24 September 1180 A.D.

|Manuel| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Manuel| |I| |Comnenus,| |8| |April| |1143| |-| |24| |September| |1180| |A.D.||half| |tetarteron|
The cruciform monogram should probably be read, MΛ (Manuel) Δ (Despotes) K (Komnenos) Π (Porphyrogennetos).

Gibbons Decline & Fall says of Manuel I, "The first in the charge, the last in the retreat, his friends and his enemies alike trembled, the former for his safety, and the latter for their own."
BZ91215. Bronze half tetarteron, DOC IV-1 22; Hendy pl. 18, 1; Morrisson BnF 61/X/AE/1; Wroth BMC 79; Ratto 2159; SBCV 1979; Sommer 61.24.1, gVF, dark near black patina, overstruck on clipped coin, obverse slightly off center, small edge cracks, weight 1.867 g, maximum diameter 18.6 mm, die axis 180o, uncertain Greek mint, 8 Apr 1143 - 1152 A.D.; obverse cruciform Manuel monogram ; reverse half-length bust of Manuel facing, beardless, wearing stemma, divitision, collar decorated with six jewels, loros and crown with cross and pendilia, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left hand; from the S. Lindner Collection, ex Forum (2016); SOLD




  




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