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E-auction 65-30982 - bby_330668 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis

BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis VF
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Estimate : 125 €
Price : 16 €
Maximum bid : 22 €
End of the sale : 14 July 2014 16:27:00
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 17,40 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Importante trace de double frappe visible des deux côtés. Jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

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 : + IHSUS/ XRISTYS /BASILEU/ BASILE'.
Reverse description : en quatre lignes surmontées d'un ornement.
Reverse translation : (Jésus-Christ roi des rois).

Commentary


Follis anonyme. Classe A2. Les Évangiles sont richement ornés de dix globules posés cinq par cinq en rectangle séparés par un globue. Le nimbe crucigère porte sur chaque bras deux globules. Un trait de chaque côté au revers. Épigraphie élégante et raffinée. Ce follis lourd avec ces ornements semble beaucoup plus rare.
Anonymous Follies. Class A2. The Gospels are richly decorated with ten globules arranged five by five in a rectangle separated by a globule. The cruciform nimbus bears two globules on each arm. A line on each side on the reverse. Elegant and refined epigraphy. This heavy follies with these ornaments seems much rarer.

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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