[Home, My eBay, Site Map, Sign In/Out] [eBay logo] [Main Navigation] [Browse Sub-Navigation] ORC6689 John V & Anna of Savoy, GOLD, VF Item #391063700 Coins & Stamps:Coins: World:Ancient:Byzantine [Image] Bidding is closed for this item. [Image] [Show description]Currently $296.99 First bid $1.00 Quantity 1 # of bids 26 bid history | with [Leave feedback] emails (to seller) Time left Auction has Location Massachusetts (to bidder) ended. Country USA If you are the Started Jul-24-00 [envelope] mail this auction to seller or the 13:17:11 PDT a friend high bidder - Aug-03-00 [Gift Alert] request a gift now what? 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Description Classical Cash and OldRomanCoins.com present: [Look at THIS!] [Look at THIS!] ORC6689 John V & Anna of Savoy, GOLD, VF John V and Anna of Savoy, 1341-1391 AD, AV hyperpyron, (2.92g) struck 1341-1347 AD, Constatinople Mint, AN DP O NI K . . . . Andronicus III kneeling before Christ standing right. / Anna and John facing, privy marks L P at sides. SB2466; VF, typical striking weakness, clipped, flan cracks, some encrustation. Andronicus III was married to Anna of Savoy, and had a son John. John V was only 9 when his father died and he became emperor. He ruled the tiny empire under his mother's regency, while a power struggle went on with John VI Cantacuzenus, once advisor to the last emperor. With the aid of the Turks, John VI took power, ruling as co-emperor with John V, who he thrust into the background. George Ostrogorsky notes of this time in History of the Byzantine State: Regents struggled for control of the throne, on which sat a nine year old boy. ''The Grand Domestic John Catacuzenus, who had been the real ruler even during Andronicus III's lifetime, asserted his claim to the regency as the nearest friend of the late Emperor. He was confronted with a strong opposition center in the Dowager Empress Anne of Savoy and the Patriarch John Calecas. . . . The life of the Byzantine capital was permeated with court intrigue and the struggles of contending factions. Before long there were external dangers to be faced: the Turks were plundering the Thracian coast, the Serbs had once again pressed forward as far as Thessalonica and the Bulgarians were also threatening war.'' Loss of land followed. ''But far worse than its territorial losses was the economic and financial ruin of the Byzantine state. The population was no longer able to pay its taxes, for in Thrace, the chief possession of the Empire, agriculture had been completely suspended during the years of the civil war, and this countryside which had had to endure the horrors of social struggles, followed by the devastating ravages of the Turkish troops, was like a desert. Byzantine trade was ruined: while the Genoese customs officials in Galata were collecting 200,000 hyperpyra a year, the annual customs revenue of Constantinople had sunk to a bare 30,000 hypera. . . . In fact there was no longer any question of a balanced budget, and for anything involving considerable outlay the government had to have recourse to special means of raising revenue, either by appealing to the generosity of the wealthy classes or by relying on foreign loans and gifts. At the beginning of the civil War, the Empress Anna had pawned the crown jewels in Venice for a loan of 30,000 ducats, and although the Venetians reminded the Empire of this debt whenever trade treaties were renewed, they never succeeded in getting it repaid and the imperial jewels remained in the treasury of St. Mark's.'' PLEASE CLICK HERE to see ALL the wonderful items in this week's sale! CLICK HERE to go to OldRomanCoins.com for coins, antiquities, and books! SUPER SERVICE: if you have an acceptable eBay record, we will promptly ship this item anywhere in the USA, with NO SHIPPING CHARGES! For shipments outside the U.S., add $5.00 If you're new to eBay, MasterCard, Visa, a Money Order or Bank Check gets you the same SUPER SERVICE. Personal checks on U.S. banks are OK, but we may hold shipments until they clear. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Image] Bidding Bidding is closed for this item. 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