- and in the 14th century,
their weight was far from uniform. The last
hyperpyra, and thus the last
Byzantine gold coins, were
struck by
Emperor John VI...
-
collected 20,000
hyperpyra each day. This,
combined with
other sources of income,
meant the empire's
annual revenue was at 5,600,000
hyperpyra in 1150. Under...
-
custom dues from
shipping p****ing
through the Bosphorus, only 30,000
hyperpyra a year, with the rest
going to Genoa. The
empire was in no
position to...
-
Crown of
Thorns to the
Venetian Podestà of
Constantinople for 13,134
hyperpyra from a "consortium of creditors". His
efforts met with success, and in...
-
applied to
coins of electrum, billon, or copper, and not to the gold
hyperpyra.
During the
short lifespan of the
feudal Crusader state, the
Latin Empire...
- of the West,
consisted of
mainly two
types of coins: gold
solidi and
hyperpyra and a
variety of
clearly valued bronze coins. By the 15th century, the...
- "bezants" were the
Byzantine solidi coins; later, the name was
applied to the
hyperpyra,
which replaced the
solidi in
Constantinople in the late 11th century...
-
policies of collection,
Andronikos II was able to
raise a
total of 1
million Hyperpyra for the
budgetary year of 1321. He
intended to use the
money to expand...
-
reiterated the
debts owed by the
Byzantine emperors to Venice: 17,163
hyperpyra owed as
reparations for
damages to
Venetian merchants, to be paid in five...
-
Byzantine naval fleet went to Phocaea, paid the
ransom demanded of 100,000
hyperpyra, and
brought Halil back to
Ottoman territory. In 1357 Orhan's
eldest and...
