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bby_215346 - THEOPHILUS Solidus

THEOPHILUS Solidus MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 829-830/831
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : gold
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beaux portraits sur un petit flan étroit et complet des deux côtés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz du 28 mai 2001, n° 1099 (450€)

Obverse


Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère.
Obverse legend : QEO-FILOS.
Obverse translation : (Théophile).

Reverse


Reverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une croix potencée de la main droite.
Reverse legend : QE-OFILOS.
Reverse translation : (Théophile).

Commentary


Suivant les auteurs droit et revers sont inversés. Nous suivons le classement du Cabinet des médailles de la BnF qui choisit pour le droit, Théophile, vêtu de la chlamyde. l’exemplaire de MONNAIES 38, n° 1426 s’est vendu 670€ avec quatre offres.

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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