Live auction - bby_857700 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Miliaresion
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| Starting price : | 260 € |
| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 22 July 2025 15:49:37 |
Type : Miliaresion
Date: N.D
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée avec des faiblesses. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IHSYS XRIS-TYS 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
Il est difficile de distinguer les miliaresion de Léon III (717-741) et de Léon IV son petit-fils (775-780). Ces miliaresia sont souvent surfrappés sur des dirhems.
It is difficult to distinguish the miliaresion of Leo III (717-741) and his grandson Leo IV (775-780). These miliaresia are often over-struck on dirhems
It is difficult to distinguish the miliaresion of Leo III (717-741) and his grandson Leo IV (775-780). These miliaresia are often over-struck on dirhems
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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