Baldwin II, emperor of the Romans (1240-1261), the emperor on horseback walking to right, wearing crown and military dress, holding sceptre, circular inscription between two lines **, rev. the emperor seated facing, on thokos, wearing crown, divitision and loros, holding a sceptre in his right hand, a globus in his left, circular inscription between two borders of dots **, 68.55g. (ZV 114a; Schlumberger-Blanchet, Orient latin p.170, no.11, and p.176, no.16), very fine

细节

Baldwin II, emperor of the Romans (1240-1261), the emperor on horseback walking to right, wearing crown and military dress, holding sceptre, circular inscription between two lines **, rev. the emperor seated facing, on thokos, wearing crown, divitision and loros, holding a sceptre in his right hand, a globus in his left, circular inscription between two borders of dots **, 68.55g. (ZV 114a; Schlumberger-Blanchet, Orient latin p.170, no.11, and p.176, no.16), very fine

拍品专文

The accession of Baldwin II saw the revival of the Byzantine tradition of 'porphyrogenetos', as his father had briefly ruled as emperor in 1217. During his long reign Baldwin assisted the armies of the Nicaean empire in their expansion westwards, but he was unable to protect his own empire, and Constantinople was retaken for the Byzantines by the forces of Michael Palaeologus in 1261. Baldwin fled to the west, eventually forming an alliance with Charles of Anjou at the treaty of Viterbo in 1267.

See also cover illustration.