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bby_215345 - THEOPHILUS, MICHAEL II and CONSTANTINUS Solidus

THEOPHILUS, MICHAEL II and CONSTANTINUS Solidus MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 950.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 830-840
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de solidus. Portraits magnifiques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz du 13 mai 1991, n° 855 (445€)

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 CONSTANTIN/.
Reverse translation : (Michel et Constantin).

Commentary


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.

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