bby_685391 - NICEPHORUS I Follis

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Type : Follis

Date: 802-803

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : copper

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 5,48 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan régulier bien centré. Buste inhabituel de Nicéphore Ier. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine superficielle

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.2 - R.1782 (Léon V) - Do.4 /1 - BN/B.1 - BC.1606 - DMBR.27 /2 (500€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : NICIFOR’ BAS’.

Obverse description : Buste couronné de Nicéphore Ier de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant une croix potencée de la main droite et l’akakia de la main gauche.

Obverse translation : (Nicéphore roi).

Reverse

Reverse legend : X/X/X - N/N/N/ A.

Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d’une croisette.

Commentary

Première type de follis pour Nicéphore Ier en 802-803 avant l’association de Staratcius, son fils au pouvoir.

Historical background

NICEPHORUS I

(1/11/806-25/07/811)

Irene was overthrown in 802 by a palace plot and Nicephorus I became emperor. His son Stauracius, who had married Theophano, was appointed co-emperor in 803. In 811, after a brilliant campaign against the Bulgarians, Nicephorus, having defeated Krum, the Tsar of the Bulgarians, took Pliska his capital, but fell into a ambush and was killed. Stauracius, himself seriously wounded, managed to escape and reach Constantinople. He abdicated on October 2, 811 in favor of his brother-in-law Michael I and retired to a monastery where he died early the following year..