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bby_208656 - CONSTANTINE V and LEO IV Follis

CONSTANTINE V and LEO IV Follis XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 751-769
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,87 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan quadrangulaire. Beaux portraits. Très jolie patine vert jade foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES VIII, n° 789

Obverse


Obverse description : Bustes de Constantin V à gauche et de Léon IV à droite, couronnés et vêtus de la chlamyde, tenant chacun de la main droite l'akakia ; au milieu, une croisette.
Obverse legend : [K - L/E/w/n].

Reverse


Reverse description : Grand buste de Léon III couronné, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant une croix potencée de la main droite.
Reverse legend : [L/E/w/n]/ D/E/S/P.

Historical background


CONSTANTINE V and LEO IV

(06/6/751-09/14/775)

On the coins of Constantine V, the portrait of the founder of the Isaurian dynasty, Leo III (720-741) often appears on the reverse. This dynasty was to last almost a hundred years until the deposition of Irene, wife of Leo IV, mother of Constantine VI whom she had blinded to reign alone..

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