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Live auction - bby_556574 - PHILIPPICUS BARDANES Solidus

PHILIPPICUS BARDANES Solidus AU
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Estimate : 3 000 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 10 March 2020 15:36:10
Type : Solidus
Date: 711-713
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Très joli buste de style fin. Petites faiblesses de frappe à 7h au revers et à 9h au droit. Beau revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Naville Numismatics, 15 Juin 2013, lot 214

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N FILEPICYS MYLTYLS AN.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Philippicus de face, vêtu du loros, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un scipio de la main gauche surmonté d’une croisette.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Filepicus Multus Anni”, (Notre seigneur Phlippicus pour de nombreuses années).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVSUI.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (La victoire de l’auguste).

Historical background


PHILIPPICUS BARDANES

(4/11/711- 3/06/713

Philippicus, of Armenian origin, revolted against the arbitrary power of Justinian II. The revolt originated in Cherson, which Justinian had punished for having been the place of his detention. Bardanes marched on Constantinople and Justinian II and his son, Tiberius were put to death. Favorable to the Monophysite heresy, he found himself deprived of numerous supports in the West, in particular in Rome. Very quickly, Philippicus had to face the double threat of the Bulgarians with Tervel their khan, former ally of Justinian II during his reinstallation in Constantinople in 705 who practically managed under the walls of the capital and in the face of the Muslim danger which scored points and continued their work of undermining in Asia Minor. Eventually the emperor was deposed, blinded and sent to a monastery where he soon died..

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