v32_0783 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis
Date: 976/1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,00 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Très beau portrait du Christ avec un petit écrasement au niveau du nez
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 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 A3. Les Évangiles sont richement ornés. Rinceau à l’exergue du revers. Ce type est attribué à Constantin VIII seul après 1025 et la mort de Basile II . Épigraphie très élégante.
Class A3. The Gospels are richly decorated. Rinceau on the exergue of the reverse. This type is attributed to Constantine VIII alone after 1025 and the death of Basil II. Very elegant epigraphy
Class A3. The Gospels are richly decorated. Rinceau on the exergue of the reverse. This type is attributed to Constantine VIII alone after 1025 and the death of Basil II. Very elegant 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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