Theodore Mankaphas or Theodore Branas?
Theodore Mankaphas or Theodore Branas?

Summary/Abstract: The field of Byzantine numismatics is a broad and complicated field, which often presents riddles that puzzle historians and numismatists for years. One of these problems, which some historians and researchers have come to regard as a rather insignificant but appealing conundrum, is continuously attracting interest. Raised by a particular billon trachy of a peculiar shape and design, first noticed in 1967 the issue of its proper identification and attribution has since been at the center of many debates. Collectors usually refer to this issue as the "Theodore Mankaphas trachy" and, being a rather rare coin, Byzantine numismatics aficionados and researchers are looking out for new specimens to add to the corpus of known examples. Presented here is a specimen from a German private collection, which has not been published before neither in local numismatic publications nor international online numismatic forums.

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