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Aspron Trachy
| Issuer | Latin Empire of Constantinople |
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| Year | 1204-1261 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Full-length frontal effigy of the Latin emperor in imperial regalia, wearing a crown adorned with pendilia and a jewelled loros, holding a sheathed sword upright in his right hand and a globus cruciger in his left. Partial Greek legend in the field to either side of the figure, the overall style reflecting the late Byzantine scyphate tradition. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Latin Empire that produced this issue was never a stable monetary authority — it was a Crusader state cobbled together after the Fourth Crusade's catastrophic sack of Constantinople in 1204, and it spent most of its existence slowly losing ground to the Byzantine successor states at Nicaea and Epirus. The billon trachy coinage it inherited had already been debased to near-worthlessness under the later Komnenian and Angeloi emperors, and the Latins made no meaningful effort to reverse that trajectory.
Attributing these pieces to specific reigns within the Latin sequence remains genuinely difficult. The Nicaean restoration under Michael VIII in 1261 ended production abruptly.