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Scyphate is a term
frequently used in
numismatics to
refer to the
concave or "cup-shaped"
Byzantine coins of the 11th–14th centuries. This
usage emerged...
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Hyperpyron of
Emperor Manuel I
Komnenos (r. 1143–1180),
showing its
typical scyphate (cup-shaped) form....
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Italian money became the
predominant circulating coinage.
These scyphate (cup-shaped)
coins known as
trachy were
issued in both
electrum (debased...
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initially meant "duke's coin" or a "duchy's coin". The
first issue of
scyphate billon coins modelled on
Byzantine trachea was made by King
Roger II of...
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original solidus,
becoming wider and thinner, as well as
concave (
scyphate) in form.
Later usually shortened to
stamenon (Gr****: στάμενον), it was...
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Scyphate (cup-shaped)
hyperpyron minted under Manuel I Komnenos...
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niello interlace pattern, 7th century, gold,
British Museum Byzantine scyphate, 1059–1067, gold,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA Pre-Columbian...
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Doukatopoulon (Aspron)
Copper Tournesion Follaro Related topics Byzantine economy Byzantine mints Scyphate Byzantine Empire Portal Numismatics Portal...
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Doukatopoulon (Aspron)
Copper Tournesion Follaro Related topics Byzantine economy Byzantine mints Scyphate Byzantine Empire Portal Numismatics Portal...
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obverse and an
inscription forming the reverse. Later, the cup-shaped (or '
scyphate')
trachy were issued, but the
silver content of
these rapidly declined...
