Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction IX 22 March 2015
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Byzantine Lead Seal. David Comnenus, grandson of Andronicus I Comnenus, AD 1204-1214. King David, crowned and nimbate, holding lotus-tipped sceptre and akakia, seated facing on a stool in three-quarter view above a star-studded dais, ΔΑ (ΒΙ) Δ RACI ΛEVC - O ΠPO ΦVTH C across fields / ΔΑ (ΒΙ) Δ RACIΛEV ACΦΑΛEC ΓPA ΦWN KVPOC ΔΑ (ΒΙ) Δ KOMNHNOV RACIΛEΓΓO NOV ΓINOV in metric verse. Zacos I 2754a; Jordanov, Corpus -; Prosopography of the Byzantine World, David Komnenos Seal 3059. 68.33g, 46mm, 12h.
David Comnenus (born AD 1184) was a grandson of the last Comnenen Emperor Andronicus I Comnenus (AD 1183-1185). Together with his brother Alexius he survived the brutal fall of his grandfather. While his brother Alexius I established a long dynastic rule in Trebizond, David moved further west to Paphlagonia, the ancestral home of his family. In the fight against Theodoros Laskaris (AD 1208-1222), the founder of the Empire of Nicaea, David even allied with the Latins. Finally, he fell in 1214 in the defense of Sinope against the Rum Seljuk Turks.
David Comnenus (born AD 1184) was a grandson of the last Comnenen Emperor Andronicus I Comnenus (AD 1183-1185). Together with his brother Alexius he survived the brutal fall of his grandfather. While his brother Alexius I established a long dynastic rule in Trebizond, David moved further west to Paphlagonia, the ancestral home of his family. In the fight against Theodoros Laskaris (AD 1208-1222), the founder of the Empire of Nicaea, David even allied with the Latins. Finally, he fell in 1214 in the defense of Sinope against the Rum Seljuk Turks.