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bby_610080 - THEOPHILUS Follis

THEOPHILUS Follis AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 829-830/831
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : bronze
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,61 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Théophile avec une faiblesse de frappe sur la légende. Revers de style fin. Patine foncée
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Obverse


Obverse legend : *Q-E-OFIL BASIL.
Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de face, vêtu de la chlamyde et tenant la croix patriarcale de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, étoile à huit rais.

Reverse


Reverse legend : X/X/X - N/N/N/.
Reverse description : Grande M surmonté d'une croisette.
Reverse legend : q.

Historical background


THEOPHILUS

(2/10/829-20/01/842)

Michael II, like Justin three hundred years earlier, is a soldier of low extraction. He joined his son Théophile from the beginning of the reign, May 12, 821 or June 1, 822, and the latter succeeded him in 829. Théophile was a cultivated man and a scholar who continued the fight against opponents of iconoclasm , but with moderation and justice. He associated his eldest son Constantine to the throne, but the latter died in 831. He had to face the rise of Islamic power and, at the end of the reign, he saw the fall of Amorium, the fortress from which he originated. He died in 842 and his son, Michael III the drunkard, succeeded him.

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