bby_699952 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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Price : 90.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,98 g.
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan mince, centré. Joli revers. Fine usure régulière. Patine marron
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 léger. Follis anonyme. Classe A. Le nimbe crucigère porte sur chaque bras deux globules. Motif avec un fleuron évidé au revers.
Lightweight. Anonymous Follis. Class A. The cruciform nimbus bears two globules on each arm. Motif with a hollow fleuron on the reverse.
Lightweight. Anonymous Follis. Class A. The cruciform nimbus bears two globules on each arm. Motif with a hollow fleuron 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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