| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24217 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 751 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (28mm, 6h). ANACS AU 55. Constantinople, post-reform coinage, AD 1092-1118. + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; barred IC-XC across upper fields / A/ΛE/ΞIw / ΔEC/ΠO/Τ-Tw/KO/MNH/Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, six pellets on sleeve; manus Dei crowning emperor from right. Sear 1912. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-28mm-6h-anacs-au-55/a/61386-24217.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24222 Price realized: 600 USD (Approx. 563 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Manuel I Comnenus (AD 1143-1180). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 6h). ANACS AU 55. Constantinople, AD 1143-1152. +KERO-HΘEI, facing bust of youthful, beardless Christ, wearing nimbus cruciger with five pellets in each arm, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, scroll in left; barred IC-XC in fields, double border / MA/NΘV/HΛ/ΔЄC/ΠΟ/TH-Tw (ligate)/ΠOP/ΦV/ΓЄ/MNH (ligate)/Tw (ligate), Manuel I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus surmounted by patriarchal cross in left; manus Dei in upper field to right, double border. Sear 1956. Though Manuel is often criticized for excessively ambitious policies and rarely judged among the best Byzantine rulers, it is hard to argue with his diplomatic ability and the dominant position the empire enjoyed at the end of his 37-year reign. It is a remarkable fact that the two forces that came together to sack Constantinople in 1204, the Crusaders and Venice, were both completely under Manuel's thumb and in submission to Byzantium less than a quarter-century earlier (at the end of his reign). Manuel established supremacy over the Crusader States in the late 1150s, allying himself with the King of Jerusalem and, in a stunning display of submission, forcing the Prince of Antioch Raynald of Châtillon to appear before him in a sack with a rope tied around his neck and then walk on foot behind him while the emperor, on horseback, made his triumphal entrance in Antioch in 1159. Twelve years later, when Venice declared war on Byzantium but was decisively defeated by Manuel's navy, he used the opportunity to revoke all the trade privileges that his father and grandfather had granted the Venetians. Thus, at his death in 1180, Constantinople's position in the Mediterranean was the strongest it had been since the days of Basil II, and Manuel can be considered the last great Byzantine emperor. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-manuel-i-comnenus-ad-1143-1180-av-hyperpyron-29mm-6h-anacs-au-55/a/61386-24222.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24228 Price realized: 1,800 USD (Approx. 1,689 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Andronicus I Comnenus (AD 1183-1185). AV hyperpyron (28mm, 5h). ANACS AU 58. Constantinople. Full-length figure of the Virgin seated facing on throne, holding nimbate head of infant Christ on lap; barred MHP-ΘV across fields / ANΔPONIKOC-ΔЄCΠOTHC, figures of Andronicus I (on left) and Christ (on right) standing facing, the former wearing crown with pendilia and loros with eight pellets on sleeve, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, and being crowned by the latter, wearing nimbus cruciger and colobium, book of Gospels cradled on left arm; barred IC between, barred XC to right. Sear 1983. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-andronicus-i-comnenus-ad-1183-1185-av-hyperpyron-28mm-5h-anacs-au-58/a/61386-24228.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61357 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 22090 Price realized: 450 USD (Approx. 411 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 4.32 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, straightened. Constantinople, post-reform coinage, AD 1092-1118. + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; barred IC-XC across upper fields / A/ΛE/ΞIw / ΔEC/ΠO/Τ-Tw/KO/MNH/Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown with pendilia, divitision and chlamys, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, six pellets on sleeve; manus Dei crowning emperor from right. Sear 1912. From the Dynasty Collection, #114. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-29mm-432-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-5-5-2-5-straightened/a/61357-22090.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61357 | Auction date: 14 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 22091 Price realized: 725 USD (Approx. 662 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (29mm, 4.39 gm, 6h). NGC AU 5/5 - 2/5, graffito, scratches, wavy flan. Constantinople. Post-reform coinage (ca.192-1118). + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left hand, IC-XC across fields, all in double-border / A-ΛE-ZIw-ΔEC-ΠO-TH-TΩ-KO-MNH (ligate)-Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and jeweled chlamys with six greatly exaggerated jewels, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, hand of God at right near head; all in double-border. Sear 1913. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-29mm-439-gm-6h-ngc-au-5-5-2-5-graffito-scratches-/a/61357-22091.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61357-01142024 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
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| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24218 Price realized: 700 USD (Approx. 657 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients Alexius I Comnenus (AD 1081-1118). AV hyperpyron (25mm, 3.26 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 4/5 - 1/5, flattened, edge filing, scratches. Constantinople. Post-reform coinage (ca.192-1118). + KЄ RO-HΘЄI, Christ seated facing on backless throne, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, raising right hand in benediction, book of Gospels in left hand, IC-XC across fields, all in double-border / A-ΛE-ZIw-ΔEC-ΠO-TH-Tw-KO-MNH (ligate)-Nw, Alexius I standing facing, wearing crown, divitision and jeweled chlamys with six greatly exaggerated jewels, labarum in right hand, globus cruciger in left, hand of God at right near head; all in double-border. Sear 1913. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-alexius-i-comnenus-ad-1081-1118-av-hyperpyron-25mm-326-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-4-5-1-5-flattened-ed/a/61386-24218.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
