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bby_319918 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis

BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,72 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait du Christ à l’usure prononcée. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Très belle 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


Poids très léger. Follis anonyme. Classe A2. Les Évangiles sont richement ornés de dix globules posés cinq par cinq en rectangle séparés par un trait. Le nimbe crucigère porte sur chaque bras un carré formé de cinq globules centrés. Motif floral visible de chaque côté au revers. Épigraphie élégante et raffinée.
Very light weight. Anonymous Follis. Class A2. The Gospels are richly decorated with ten globules placed five by five in a rectangle separated by a line. The cruciform nimbus bears on each arm a square formed of five centered globules. Floral motif visible on each side of the reverse. Elegant and refined epigraphy

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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