E-auction 84-42638 - bby_301859 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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| Estimate : | 125 € |
| Price : | 26 € |
| Maximum bid : | 31 € |
| End of the sale : | 24 November 2014 16:19:30 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,22 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste du Christ avec une faiblesse de frappe. Joli revers. Belle patine vert 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 : + IHSUS/ XRISTYS /BASILEU/ BASILE'.
Reverse description : en quatre lignes surmontées d'un ornement.
Reverse translation : (Jésus-Christ roi des rois).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Follis anonyme. Classe A2. Les Évangiles sont ornés d’un annelet centré entouré de globules. Chaque bras de la croix nimbée porte une croisette cantonnée de quatre globules. Losange aux extrémités globulées au revers en début et en fin de légende.
Very light weight. Anonymous Follis. Class A2. The Gospels are decorated with a centered ringlet surrounded by globules. Each arm of the haloed cross bears a crosslet flanked by four globules. Diamond with globular ends on the reverse at the beginning and end of the legend
Very light weight. Anonymous Follis. Class A2. The Gospels are decorated with a centered ringlet surrounded by globules. Each arm of the haloed cross bears a crosslet flanked by four globules. Diamond with globular ends on the reverse at the beginning and end of the legend
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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