bby_546545 - THEOPHILUS, MICHAEL II and CONSTANTINUS Solidus

THEOPHILUS, MICHAEL II and CONSTANTINUS Solidus XF

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Type : Solidus

Date: 830-840

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,18 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Flan court, bien centré des deux côtés. Beaux bustes. Faiblesse sur le visage de Constantin. Usure régulière. Patine de collection

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.6 - R.1832 - Do.3 d5 - BN/B.3 - BC.1653 (600£) - RGCMW.250 (550$) - DMBR.31 /2 (900€)

Obverse

Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une croix patriarcale de la main droite et l’akakia de la main gauche.

Obverse legend : *QEOFI-LOS BASILE Q.

Obverse translation : (Théophile roi).

Reverse

Reverse description : Bustes barbu et couronné de Michel II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde et de Constantin imberbe, couronné, vêtu aussi de la chlamyde ; au milieu, une petite croisette.

Reverse legend : +MICAHL S KONSTANTIN/.

Reverse translation : (Michel et Constantin).

Commentary

Monnaie montée anciennement. Cet exemplaire se caractérise par une étoile à six rais en début de légende de droit et un thêta en fin de cette même légende.

Historical background

THEOPHILUS, MICHAEL II and CONSTANTINUS

(5/06/830-831)

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.