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bby_215353 - BASIL I and CONSTANTINE Semissis

BASIL I and CONSTANTINE Semissis MS
MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Semissis
Date: 868-878
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : electrum
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un petit flan ovale et irrégulier. Portraits de Basile Ier et de Constantin magnifiques. Conserve son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.31  - R.1859  - Do.14 a - BN/B.1  - BC.1714 (350£) - RGCMW.269 (300$) - MBS.579
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Rauch 75, 6-7 mai 2005, n° 1016 (415€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : BAS-ILEI0S.
Obverse description : Le Christ nimbé, vêtu du pallium et du colombium trônant de face, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Basile).

Reverse

Reverse legend : C0N-STANT.
Reverse translation : (Constantin).

Commentary

O des légendes lunaires. C’est l’ultime monnayage de l’atelier de Syracuse de la période byzantine.

Historical background

BASIL I and CONSTANTINE

(10/02/868-3/09/879)

Basil was associated with the throne on May 26, 866 by Michael III the Drunkard and became sole emperor after having assassinated him. He reigned alone for a year, then associated to the throne in 868 his favorite son Constantine, who died in 879. Under the reign of Basil I, Syracuse fell into the hands of Islam and in 878, Sicily was definitively lost. Basil's reign was a period of consolidation. The emperor collected all of Justinian's legal works better known as the Basilica. Basil died in a hunting accident.

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