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Catalogue of the Coins of the Vandals, Ostrogoths and Lombards, and Of ; j-'iv.-v -.'?>.'; i.-. \V'',. "• \r;. * ;' >.•: life ! Slfipft nfii ^^i^v^^Sf^lV'-• W djantell Hniucrattg Cihranj 3tljaca, Nem gort Mljite ISjiatorical ffithrarg THE GIFT OF PRESIDENT WHITE MAINTAINED BY THE UNIVERSITY IN ACCORD- ANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF THE GIFT Cornell University Library CJ1215 .L84 + Catalogue of the coins of the Vandals, 3 1924 029 792 722 olin Overs Cornell University Library The original of this book is in the Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924029792722 FRONTISPIECE. JN v- I E vi- **s ^^^ GOLD COIN OF THEODORIC ENLARGED IN THE COLLECTION OF COM. F, GNECCHI, MILAN. CATALOGUE OF THE COINS OF THE VANDALS, OSTROGOTHS AND LOMBARDS AND OF THE EMPIRES OF THESSALONICA,l NICAEA AND TEEBIZOND ? IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM BY WARWICK WROTH ASSISTANT-KEEPER OF THE COINS AND MEDALS WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND 43 PLATES LONDON PEINTED BY OEDEE OF THE TEUSTEES SOLD AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM, AND BY LONGMANS & CO., 39 Paternoster Row ; BERNARD QUARITCH, 11 Grafton Street, Bond Street, W. ; ASHER & CO., 14 Bedford Street, Coyent Garden ; HENRY FROWDE, Oxford University Press, Amen Corner, E.C ; and ROLLIN & FEUARDENT, 66 Great Russell Street, W.C., and 4 Rue de Louvois, Paris [All rights reserved] OOkNt t-U UN I VI: usn Y 'l-IIsKAUY OXFORD LETTERPRESS AND PLATES PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY HORACE HART PREFACE BY THE KEEPER OF COINS The present Catalogue is intended to supplement the two volumes of the Catalogue of Imperial Byzantine Coins in the British Museum published by the Trustees in 1908, and contains a de- scription of the coins of the Vandals and Ostrogoths and of the Lombard Kingdom and Lombard Duchy of Beneventum. The coinages r the so-called Empires which arose after the Latin conquest of Constantinople in 1204, namely Thessalonica, Nicaea, and Trebizond, are included in the volume, and the coins of the despots of Epirus and of the Duchy of Neopatras are also briefly noticed. The size of the coins is given in inches and tenths and the weight in English Troy grains. Tables for converting grains into grammes and inches into millimetres, as well as into the measures of Mionnet's scale, are placed at the end of the volume. At the end of the Indexes chronological lists of Kings and Dynasts will be found. The whole work has been written by Mr. Warwick Wroth, Assistant-Keeper of the Coins and Medals, and the proof-sheets have been read by myself and by Mr. G. F. Hill, Senior Assistant in the Department. H. A. GRUEBER. British Museum, May, 1911. — CONTENTS PAGE PEEFACE iii xn LIST OF PLATES . ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS xiv INTRODUCTION xv §1- Coinage op the Vandals : The earliest Vandal coinages ..... XV Vandalic coinages not inscribed with the kings' names xvi Roman bronze coins, apparently countermarked by the Vandals xviii Small bronze coins of the Vandal kings and the Mauri ? xviii General view of Vandal coinage in gold, silver, and bronze xxi Vandal coinage and Vandal civilization . xxiv Coinage of Gaiseric xxvi Of Huneric xxvi Of Gunthamund xxvii Of Trasamund xxvii OfHilderic . xxvii Of Gelimer . xxviii §2. Coinage op the Ostrogoths:— Study of the Ostrogothic coinage ...... xxix Odovacar .......... xxix Theodoric .......... xxxi Amalasuntha ......... xxxiii Athalaric xxxiii Theodahad .......... xxxiii Witigis xxxv Matasuntha .......... xxxvi Ildibad xxxvii Eraric xxxvii Baduila (Totila) . ... xxxvii Theia xxxviii Denominations and Weights xxxix Inscriptions . ........ xlii Types xliii —— — — vi CONTENTS Coinage of the Ostrogoths (continued) : page Portraiture ......•••• xlin Reverse types .....-•• xliv Table of Mints xliv On the attribution of Italian coins with Imperial names (Period xlv of the Ostrogoths) . • • • . Gold coins .......•• xlv Silver coins xlviii Bronze coins ......•••• « § 3. Coinage op the Lombard Kings : Attribution of the anonymous coins lv Alboin, Cleph, and the Interregnum ..... lvi Authari ; Agilulf lvi Adalwald—Grimwald ........ lvi Perctarit lvii Cunincpert .......... lvii Eude character of the Lombard coinage : its types . lvii Legends .......... lviii Weights and metals ........ lis Mints ........... lx § 4. Coinage or the Duchy and Principality of Beneventum : The four great Lombard Duchies ...... lxi Duchy of Beneventum : its earliest coinages .... lxii Denominations and weights ....... lxiii Types, &c. .......... lxiv Bomoald II ......... Ixv Successors of Bomoald II ...... lxv Arichis II . lxv Portraiture on Beneventan coins ...... lxvi Grimoald III ......... lxvi Grimoald IV ......... lxvii Sico ........... lxvii Sicardus .......... lxvii Badelchis I ......... lxvii Siconulf .......... Ixviii Adelchis and successors ....... Ixviii § 5. Coinage of the Empire of Thessalonica : Theodore Angelus ......... lxix Manuel Angelus ......... lxix John Angelus ......... lxix Demetrius, despot ......... lxix Metals and types ......... lxx . ——— — CONTENTS VII § 6. Coinage of the Empire op Nicaea : page Theodore I Lascaris lxxi Nicaean gold coinage Ixxi Titles of Theodore I lxxi John I (' III ') Vatatzes lxxi Theodore II Lascaris lxxii John II (' IV ') Lascaris Ixxii Michael VIII Palaeologus lxxiii § 7. Coinage op the Despots of Epirus: Michael I lxxiii Theodore Angelus lxxiii § 8. Coinage op the Duchy op Neopatras : John I Angelus Comnenus . Ixxiv Constantine Angelus .... Ixxiv John II Angelus Comnenus . lxxiv § 9. Coinage op the Empire of Trebizond : 1. The coinage and its arrangement : Writers on the coinage' . ...... lxxiv Attribution of the silver coins ..... lxxv Bronze coinage ........ lxxvii 2. The Emperors and their coinage : Alexius I lxxvii Andronicus I Gidos . Ixxviii John I Ixxviii Manuel I Ixxviii Andronicus II ....... Ixxix George Ixxix John II . Ixxix Theodora ......... lxxx Alexius II lxxx Andronicus III ........ lxxxi Manuel II ........ lxxxi Basil .......... lxxxi Irene ; Anna . lxxxi John III ......... lxxxi Michael .......... lxxxi Alexius III ......... Ixxxii Manuel III Ixxxii Alexius IV . Ixxxii John IV . Ixxxiii David . Ixxxiii — — : Vlll CONTENTS PAGE Coinage op the Empire of Trebizond (continued) 3. Metals and weight : . lxxxiii Silver coinage . lxxxv Origin of the asper . lxxxvi The nomisma . lxxxvi Bronze coinage . — 4. Types and inscriptions : . lxxxvi St. Eugenius . lxxxvii Miscellaneous reverse types . lxxxviii Eepresentations of the emperor lxxxix Inscriptions . • • lxxxix Forms of letters xc 5. Symbols and letters . CATALOGUE OF COINS :— I. Vandals : Gaiseric ....•• ; — — CONTENTS IX III. Lombard Kings (continued):— PAGE 133 Kodwald ; Aripert I 133 Perctarit and Godepert ; Grimwald Perctarit 134 Cunincpert 138 Liutpert 140 Eaginpert 140 Aripert II 141 Ansprand 142 Liutprand 143 Hildeprand 145 Batchis 146 Aistulf . 147 Desiderius 149 Quasi-autonomous coins of Lucca 150 Italian tremisses of Charlemagne 152 Uncertain of Lombardic series 153 IV. Besteventum, Duchy, etc., of : Grimoald I Eomoald I ; G-rimoald II 155 Gisulf I 155 Eomoald II 155 Audelais 158 Gregorius .......... 159 Gottschalk 161 Gisulfll 162 Liutprand .......... 164 Arichis II ........ 167 Grimoald III ........ 170 Grimoald IV 174 Sico .......... 176 Sicardus ......... 179 Eadelchis I 181 Eadelgarius .......... 183 Adelchis 183 Gaideris 187 Eadelchis II 187, 188 Aio 187 Interregnum . 188 Uncertain Beneventan coinages ...... 189 Thessalonica, Empire op : Theodore Angelus ........ 193 Manuel Angelus 197 John Angelus 200, 202 Demetrius 202 Coinage of Thessalonica ?....... 202 CONTENTS VI. CONTENTS xi CHKONOLOGICAL LISTS:— page I. Vandal Kings 339 II. Ostrogothic Kings 339 III. Lombard Kings 339 IV. Dukes and Princes of Beneventum ..... 340 V. Emperors of Thessalonica ...... 340 VI. Emperors of Nicaea ........ 340 VII. Despots of Epirus 340 VIII. Dukes and Sebastocrators of Neopatras .... 341 IX. Emperors of Trebizond ....... 341 TABLE for converting English Inches into Millimetres and the measures of Mionnet's scale ........ 342 TABLE of the Kelative Weights of English Grains and French Grammes 343 LIST OF PLATES Frontispiece. Gold coin (triple Solidus) of Theodoric (described p. 54 and p. xxxi). I. Vandals : —Gaiseric. Huneric. II. Vandals :—Gunthamund. Trasamund. Hilderic. Gelimer. III-IV. Small bronze coins of the Vandalic period. V. Ostrogoths :—Odovacar. Theodoric (Eavenna). : VI. Ostrogoths —Theodoric (Eavenna ; Eome). VII. Ostrogoths : —Theodoric (Eome, &c). Athalaric (Eavenna). : VIII. Ostrogoths —Athalaric (Eavenna ; Eome). : IX. Ostrogoths —Theodahad (Eavenna ; Eome). X. Ostrogoths :—Witigis. Matasuntha. Baduila (Ticinuni). : XL Ostrogoths —Baduila (Ticinum ; Eome). XII. Ostrogoths :—Baduila (Eome). Theia. Quasi-autonomous bronze of Eome. XIII. Ostrogoths : — Quasi-autonomous bronze of Eome. XIV. Ostrogoths : —Quasi-autonomous bronze of Eome and Eavenna. XV. Imperial coins of Justinian I (Eome, bronze). XVI. Imperial coins of Justinian I (Eome ; Eavenna). XVII. Imperial coins: —Justinian I (Eavenna). Justin II (Eavenna). Maurice Tiberius. XVIII. Lombards:—Alboin—Interregnum. Authari. Agilulf. Adal- wald—Eothari. XIX. Lombards:— Adalwald — Eothari. Eodwald — Grimwald. Perc- tarit. XX. Lombards : —Cunincpert. Aripert II. Liutprand. Aistulf. Desi- derius. Coins of Lucca. Charlemagne. XXI. Lombard (Uncertain). Beneventum : —Eomoald II. Gregorius. Gisulf II. XXII. Beneventum : —Liutprand. Arichis II. XXIII. Beneventum : —Grimoald III. Grimoald IV. XXIV. Beneventum:— Sico. Sicardus. XXV. Beneventum : —Eadelchis I. Adelchis. Uncertain. XXVI. Thessalonica : —Theodore Angelus. Manuel
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