Trachy (currency)

Aspron trachy minted by the usurper Theodore Mankaphas

The term trachy (Greek: τραχύ), plural trachea (τραχέα), meaning "rough" or "uneven", was used to describe the cup-shaped (incorrectly often called "scyphate") Byzantine coins struck in the 11th–14th centuries.^[1] The term was properly applied to coins of electrum, billon, or copper, and not to the gold hyperpyra.^[1]

References

1 2 ODB, "Trachy" (Ph. Grierson), p. 2101.

Sources

Kazhdan, Alexander, ed. (1991). The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-504652-6.

Currencies of the Byzantine Empire

First period (498 – ca. 700)	Gold Solidus Semissis Tremissis Silver Hexagram (from 615) Copper Follis Half-follis Decanummium Pentanummium Nummus

Second period (ca. 700 – 1092)	Gold Solidus or Nomisma (later Histamenon) Tetarteron (from 960s) Silver Miliaresion (from 720) Copper Follis

Third period (1092 – ca. 1300)	Gold Hyperpyron Electrum Nomisma trachy aspron (Trikephalon/Manouelaton) Billon Aspron trachy (Stamenon) Copper Tetarteron Half-tetarteron

Fourth period (ca. 1300 – 1350s)	Gold Hyperpyron Silver Basilikon Billon Tournesion (Politikon) Copper Trachy Assarion

Fifth period (1367 – 1453)	Silver Stavraton Half-stavraton Doukatopoulon (Aspron) Copper Tournesion Follaro

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