Scarce small bronze trachy
Rare type bronze trachy, Crusader
Kingdom, Constantinople, 1204-1261 AD
Size and weight:
18
mm, 1.04
grams
Emperor Standing / Christ enthroned, inscriptions in
fields. Very nice for the type.
The knights of the Fourth Crusade set up a Crusader
kingdom known as the Latin Empire or Romania based on Constantinople after
sacking the city in 1204. They intended it to be a Roman Catholic successor of
the Byzantine Empire. Baldwin IX, Count of Flanders, was crowned the first
emperor May 16, 1204.
A nice trachy, from later types. These trachies were
issued by the various Crusader Emperors – they are almost always extremely
crude.
This
coin is guaranteed to be authentic.
Stock#
bt102