This is a silver asper from the Empire of Trebizond. It was located on the south east shore of the Black Sea. The obverse has the ruler on a horse, and the reverse has St. Eugenius on a horse.
The obverse has on the left: A, over a bent line, over ϵ, over a symbol I cannot reproduce here. The ruler is Alexius. It could be Alexius II (1297-1330) or Alexius III (1349-1390). The symbol under the horse on the reverse side (similar to L) was used by Alexius II.
Perhaps someone can identify which ruler actually made this coin
Цитата: "numisquare"This is a silver asper from the Empire of Trebizond. It was located on the south east shore of the Black Sea. The obverse has the ruler on a horse, and the reverse has St. Eugenius on a horse.
The obverse has on the left: A, over a bent line, over ϵ, over a symbol I cannot reproduce here. The ruler is Alexius. It could be Alexius II (1297-1330) or Alexius III (1349-1390). The symbol under the horse on the reverse side (similar to L) was used by Alexius II.
Perhaps someone can identify which ruler actually made this coin
Thank you very much, I only see the symbol on Alexius II looking at zeno so it is probably him. But where would this coin go in our catalog? I don't see the Trebizond Empire anywhere unless I am missing something.
Yes seems a new country is needed, either completely separate or listed under Byzantine Empire as a sub-country ?
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David Sear in his one volume work on Byzantine Coins has divided the book in this fashion:
Imperial Byzantine Coinage
Latin Rulers of Constantinople and Thessalonica
Empire of Nicea
Empire of Thessalonica
Despotate of Epirus
Restored Byzantine Empire
Empire of Trebizond.
Empire of Trebizond
Successor of the Byzantine Empire,
client state of the Kingdom of Georgia (1204–1212/13),[A] vassal of the Mongol Empire (1243–1336) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_Trebizond
I agree that Trebizonid Empire should be listed as separate medieval kingdom. Of course, it is a part of the Byzantine World , and if Byzantine Empire would reunite and continue its life under Comnenos dynasty then we should say that trepizonid Empire was something like " legal Government in exile" :) . But it has been fallen and never reborn. In it`s short life, Trebizonid empire has quite rich numismatic history, so it deserves to be listed separately. By the way, in the Easter part of Georgia they struck local imitations of Trepizonid aspers, which are very interesting part of georgian Numismatics. i will add it soon to the Catalog
