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Live auction - bby_612715 - ROMANUS III ARGYRUS Histamenon nomisma

ROMANUS III ARGYRUS Histamenon nomisma AU
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Estimate : 650 €
Price : 655 €
Maximum bid : 655 €
End of the sale : 27 October 2020 15:38:25
bidders : 5 bidders
Type : Histamenon nomisma
Date: 1028-1034
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,39 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré des deux côtés. Fine usure superficielle. Petite cassure de coin visible à 2h au droit. Joli revers ainsi qu’une belle représentation du Christ
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : + IHS XIS REX - REGNANTIHM.
Obverse description : Le Christ avec le nimbe crucigère trônant de face, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la main gauche ; double grènetis circulaire.
Obverse translation : (Jésus-Christ roi des rois).

Reverse


Reverse description : Romain III couronné, vêtu du loros et du saccos debout de face, tenant de la main droite la croix potencée et de la gauche le globe crucigère couronné par la Vierge, vêtue du pallium et du maphorium bénissant l'empereur ; double grènetis circulaire.
Reverse legend : QCE bOHQ MQ- RwMAhw.
Reverse translation : (par la grâce de la Vierge, Romain).

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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