E-auction 47-19686 - bby_282495 - BASIL II and CONSTANTINE VIII Follis
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| Estimate : | 75 € |
| Price : | 27 € |
| Maximum bid : | 29 € |
| End of the sale : | 10 March 2014 16:35:30 |
| bidders : | 6 bidders |
Type : Follis
Date: c. 976-1028
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,31 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier. Très beau droit, bien visible. Revers à la frappe brouillée. Patine marron foncé
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 A3. Les Évangiles sont richement ornés. Le nimbe crucigère porte une croisette cantonée de quatre globules dans chaque bras de la croix visible. Motif formé d’un losange évidé à l’exergue du revers au-dessus et au-dessous de la légende. Traces de surfrappe au revers. Ce type avec un poids léger est parfois attribué au règne de Constantin VIII seul.
Anonymous Follis. Class A3. The Gospels are richly decorated. The cruciform nimbus bears a crosslet with four globules in each arm of the visible cross. Motif formed by a hollowed-out lozenge in the exergue of the reverse above and below the legend. Traces of over-striking on the reverse. This type, with its light weight, is sometimes attributed to the reign of Constantine VIII alone.
Anonymous Follis. Class A3. The Gospels are richly decorated. The cruciform nimbus bears a crosslet with four globules in each arm of the visible cross. Motif formed by a hollowed-out lozenge in the exergue of the reverse above and below the legend. Traces of over-striking on the reverse. This type, with its light weight, is sometimes attributed to the reign of Constantine VIII alone.
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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