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bby_251079 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Miliaresion

LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Miliaresion XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 145.00 €
Type : Miliaresion
Date: c. 720-741
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 1,80 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés, mais largement fendu des deux côtés. Très beau droit. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine foncée de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : IHSYS XRISTYS NICA.
Obverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ vainqueur).

Reverse


Reverse legend : + LEON//S CONSTAN//TINE E//C QEOY//BA/SILIS..
Reverse description : en cinq lignes.
Reverse translation : (Léon et Constantin par la grâce de Dieu, rois des Romains),.

Commentary


Poids léger. Il est difficile de distinguer les miliaresion de Léon III (717-741) et de Léon IV son petit-fils (775-780).

Historical background


LEO III and CONSTANTINE V

(25/03/720-18/06/741)

Leo III, a peasant from Syria, became august on March 25, 717. He overthrew Theodosius III on July 24 of the same year. He victoriously pushed back the Arabs who had come to besiege Constantinople (717-718). Leo III, nicknamed the Isaurian, founded a dynasty destined to reign over the Byzantine Empire for a century. His son, Constantine V, was associated with the throne from 720. The Arab enemy was contained and Europe was saved. He allied himself with the Bulgarians and the Khazars. In 733, Constantine V, married the daughter of the Khazar khan. Leo III, before dying won a great victory over the Muslims in 740 at Acroinon. But the iconoclastic quarrel which began under his reign in 726 was to shake the ideological structures of the Byzantine Empire..

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