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bby_863661 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis

BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis XF
70.00 €(Approx. 78.40$ | 58.80£)
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Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 33 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 20,37 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, épais, centré. Joli buste du Christ. Usure régulière. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection André Ronde

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


Follis anonyme. Classe A2. Les Évangiles sont richement ornés. Le nimbe crucigère porte deux globules horizontaux dans chaque bras de la croix visible. Au revers, motif formé d’une étoile à six rais aux extrémités bouletées et globulée au centre, à l’exergue du revers au-dessus et au-dessous de la légende.
Follis anonymous. Class A2. The Gospels are richly decorated. The crucigerous nimbus bears two horizontal globules in each arm of the visible cross. On the reverse, motif formed of a star with six spokes with pelleted ends and globulated in the center, on the exergue of the reverse above and below 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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