bby_271078 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 16,37 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très large et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Usure importante au droit. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron foncéau droit, verte au revers, légèrement granuleuse
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. Importantes traces de surfrappe au droit et au revers. Les bras de la croix sont ornés de trois séries de quatre globules posés en carré. Quatre globules posés en carré au revers.
Heavy weights. Follis anonymous. Class A2. Significant traces of overprinting on the right and reverse. The arms of the cross are decorated with three series of four globules placed in a square. Four globules placed in a square on the reverse
Heavy weights. Follis anonymous. Class A2. Significant traces of overprinting on the right and reverse. The arms of the cross are decorated with three series of four globules placed in a square. Four globules placed in a square on the reverse
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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