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E-auction 38-14541 - bby_248607 - ROMANUS III ARGYRUS Follis

ROMANUS III ARGYRUS Follis AU
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Estimate : 95 €
Price : 41 €
Maximum bid : 48 €
End of the sale : 06 January 2014 16:27:30
bidders : 7 bidders
Type : Follis
Date: c. 1028-1034
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré au droit, décentré au revers. Beau buste du Christ malgré l’accident de frappe. Joli revers. Belle patine vert noir
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : +EMMA-NOVHA/ IC - XC.
Obverse description : Grand buste du Christ Antiphonetes debout de face, avec le globe crucigère, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.
Obverse translation : (Dieu avec nous).

Reverse


Reverse legend : IS-XC/ BAS-ILE/ BAS-ILE.
Reverse description : Croix aux extrémités bouletées posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : (Jésus Christ roi des rois).

Commentary


Poids léger. Surfrappé sur un follis anonyme de la classe A2 (BC. 1813) attribué à Basile II et Constantin VIII. Follis anonyme, classe B. Globe nimbé crucigère pointé, la croix ornée de trois croissants. Les Évangiles ornés de cinq globules posés en carré centré. Accident de frappe visible au droit sur le buste du Christ.

Historical background


ROMANUS III ARGYRUS

(12/11/1028-11/04/1034)

Romain III had married Zoé, the daughter of Basil II, who became the mistress of the future Michel IV and Romain was suffocated in his bath.

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