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Type : Histamenon Nomisma
Date: 977
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie, centrée des deux côtés. Très beau revers ainsi qu’un beau buste du Christ, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + IHS XIS REX REGNANTHIM.
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 ; grènetis circulaire.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ roi des rois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + BASIL C COHSTANTI B R’.
Reverse description : Bustes couronnés avec pendilia bouletées de face de Basile II, vêtu du loros en carré et de Constantin VIII vêtu de la chlamyde ; ils tiennent ensemble la croix patriarcale ; grènetis circulaire.
Reverse translation : (Basile et Constantin rois romains).
Commentary
Exemplaire monté anciennement.
Formerly mounted example
Formerly mounted example
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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