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bby_564098 - THEOPHILUS Follis

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Price : 320.00 €

Type : Follis

Date: 829-830/831

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : bronze

Diameter : 25,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 6,20 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Flan légèrement irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Joli buste de Théophile. Agréable patine vert foncé

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.15 - R.1822 - Do.13 - BN/B.1 - BC.1666 - DMBR.31 /4 (250€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : *Q-E-OFIL BASIL.

Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de face, vêtu de la chlamyde et tenant la croix patriarcale de la main droite ; dans le champ à gauche, étoile à huit rais.

Reverse

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

Reverse description : Grande M surmonté d'une croisette.

Reverse legend : q

Commentary

Poids léger.
Lightweight

Historical background

THEOPHILUS

(2/10/829-20/01/842)

Michael II, like Justin three hundred years earlier, is a soldier of low extraction. He joined his son Théophile from the beginning of the reign, May 12, 821 or June 1, 822, and the latter succeeded him in 829. Théophile was a cultivated man and a scholar who continued the fight against opponents of iconoclasm , but with moderation and justice. He associated his eldest son Constantine to the throne, but the latter died in 831. He had to face the rise of Islamic power and, at the end of the reign, he saw the fall of Amorium, the fortress from which he originated. He died in 842 and his son, Michael III the drunkard, succeeded him.

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