bby_790753 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 10,44 g.
Coments on the condition:
Flan de forme ovale, centré. Beau buste du Christ au droit, finement détaillé. Revers bien lisible, ornements de style fin. Patine verte
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 colombium, 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
Classe A2. Nimbe crucigère orné de cinq globules placés en carré centré dans le bras supérieur et de deux globules horizontaux dans les bras latéraux, un globule de chaque côté dans la partie supérieur du nimbe. Les Évangiles sont ornés d’un annelet globulé central et de quatre perles posées en carré. Croix formée de quatre globules de chaque côté de la légende.
Class A2. Crucigerous nimbus decorated with five globules placed in a square centered in the upper arm and two horizontal globules in the lateral arms, one globule on each side in the upper part of the nimbus. The Gospels are decorated with a central globulated ring and four pearls placed in a square. Cross formed by four globules on each side of the legend
Class A2. Crucigerous nimbus decorated with five globules placed in a square centered in the upper arm and two horizontal globules in the lateral arms, one globule on each side in the upper part of the nimbus. The Gospels are decorated with a central globulated ring and four pearls placed in a square. Cross formed by four globules on each side 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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