bby_272111 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 55.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 34 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 12,20 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Usure très importante, mais lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : + EMMA - NOVHA/ IC - XC.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ Antiphonetes debout de face, avec le globe crucigère, vêtu du pallium et du colobium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Dieu avec nous).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + IHSYS/ XRISTYS /BASILEU/ BASILE'.
Reverse description : en trois lignes surmontées d'un losange évidé.
Reverse translation : (Jésus Christ roi des rois).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Follis anonyme. Classe A2. Les bras de la croix sont ornés de trois séries de deux globules posés horizontalement. Croisette accosté de chaque côtés de trois globules posés en triangle.
Heavyweight. Anonymous Follis. Class A2. The arms of the cross are decorated with three series of two globules placed horizontally. The cross is flanked on each side by three globules placed in a triangle.
Heavyweight. Anonymous Follis. Class A2. The arms of the cross are decorated with three series of two globules placed horizontally. The cross is flanked on each side by three globules placed in a triangle.
Historical background
BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII
(01/10/976-12/15/1025)
Basil II the Bulgaroctone was the greatest emperor of the Macedonian dynasty which died out with Theodora in 1056. Basil II was the son of Roman II and Theophano. He had been elevated to power by his father, still a child, in 960. He was associated with power during the successive reigns of Nicephorus II Phocas and John I. Constantin VIII, his brother, was subordinate to him throughout his reign and succeeded him in 1025 for only three years. Basil restored Byzantine authority in the Balkans and Asia Minor.
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