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Trachy - Andronikos III Palaiologos
| Issuer | Byzantine Empire (Byzantine states) |
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| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Reverse description | Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos depicted full-length, standing facing in imperial regalia, holding the akakia in one hand. A small angelic figure appears in the upper right field, crowning the emperor in a gesture of divine investiture common to late Byzantine numismatic iconography. A retrograde letter B appears in the lower right field, serving as a mint or officina mark associated with the Thessalonica mint. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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Andronikos III claimed the throne after a prolonged civil war against his own grandfather, Andronikos II, a conflict that gutted Byzantine finances and left the mint producing debased, irregular coinage of diminishing weight and consistency. By his reign the trachy had collapsed so far from its 11th-century billon origins that copper issues like this one were essentially fiduciary tokens rather than intrinsically valued money. BCV 2484 specimens routinely show off-center strikes and irregular flans — a direct consequence of the manual production conditions at Constantinople during a period of severe institutional deterioration.