bby_208842 - NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS Follis

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Type : Follis

Date: 803-811

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : copper

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,79 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, décentré au droit. Beaux portraits. Patine vert noir granuleuse

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.- - R.1763 - Do.11 /3 - BN/B.- - BC.1613

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de MONNAIES XX, n° 131

Obverse

Obverse legend : N - K.

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

Reverse

Reverse legend : A.

Reverse description : Buste couronné de Stauracius de face, vêtu de la chlamyde.

Commentary

Exemplaire difficile à identifier car les légendes de droit et de revers sont pratiquement inexistantes.

Historical background

NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS

(12/803-25/07/811)

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..

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bby_208842 - NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS Follis

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS

(12/803-25/07/811)

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