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v36_1184 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Solidus

LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Solidus MS
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 856.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 1 100.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 737-741
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Les deux portraits sont fantastiques et semblent sortir du flan. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de Tradart (Bruxelles)

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N LEO-N PAMYL’ E.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Léon III, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Léon.

Reverse


Reverse legend : D N CONS-TANTINY Z.
Reverse description : Buste couronné de Constantin V, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Reverse translation : (Notre seigneur Constantin).

Commentary


Devant la croisette du globe crucigère, nous semblons voir une lettre (thêta, oméga minuscule ou epsilon). Ce type avec cette combinaison de lettres terminales des deux côtés (E/Z) semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.

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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