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Aspron Trachy - Andronicus I Gidon
| Issuer | Empire of Trebizond (Byzantine states) |
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| Year | 1222-1235 |
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| Technique | Hammered (scyphate) |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Andronicus I Gidon ruled Trebizond during a period of acute military pressure, squeezed between the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum to the south and a resurgent Nicaean Empire contesting Byzantine legitimacy from the west. The aspron trachy — a concave or scyphate flan — was a denomination inherited directly from Constantinople, and Trebizond's continued use of it was a deliberate assertion of imperial continuity from a dynasty that had fled the Latin sack of 1204.
Trebizond's silver issues from this reign are notably rare in the DOC corpus; only a handful of specimens informed the DOC IV-2 classification. The scyphate flan on provincial silver strikes of this period frequently shows uneven curvature from hand-finished dies.