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Aspron Trachy Hendy Type D
| Uitgever | Latin Empire of Constantinople |
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| Jaar | 1204-1219 |
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| Referentie(s) | BCV#2024 |
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| Schrift voorzijde | Greek |
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| Beschrijving keerzijde | Full-length facing figure of the Despot Manuel, rendered in imperial regalia including a jeweled stemma crown and heavily ornamented loros. He holds a patriarchal cross-sceptre in his right hand and an akakia or globus cruciger in his left. The figure is flanked by the Greek legend MANOVHA Δ ECΠOTHC distributed across the field. The style reflects the debased hammered technique typical of Latin imitative billon trachea of the early thirteenth century. |
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| Aanvullende informatie |
The Latin Empire's coinage was not a deliberate monetary program — it was improvisation. After the Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople in 1204, the Frankish and Venetian occupiers inherited a Byzantine monetary system they barely understood and kept striking debased trachea largely because the infrastructure was already there. Hendy's Type D represents one of the earliest attempts to maintain Byzantine monetary forms under entirely alien administration.
The billon content was already in steep decline before the Latins arrived, a debasement trend the new rulers did nothing to reverse.