1 Assarion Byzantine Empire (330-1453) Bronze

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Denomination:

1 Assarion

Metal:

Bronze

State:

Byzantine Empire (330-1453)

Issue year(s):

1334-1335

Andronicus III, Palaeologus, AE Assarion, 1334/1335, Second Indiction, Constantinople

Large NB, left facing crescent with line above it within curve of N, * above, * below

Andronicus III standing facing, wearing loros, cruciform scepter in right hand, akakia in left

19mm x 21mm, 2.40g

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Posted by: ancient 2010-02-19

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Andronicus II Andronicus II (Andronicus Palaeologus) , 1258-1332, Byzantine emperor (1282-1328), son and successor of Michael VIII. He devoted himself chiefly to church affairs, renewing the schism by renouncing (1282) the union established at the Second Council of Lyons. He made a treaty with the rising kingdom of Serbia. He also made an unsuccessful allia ...

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