Live auction - bby_418277 - CONSTANTINE IX MONOMACHOS Histamenon nomisma
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| Estimate : | 950 € |
| Price : | 770 € |
| Maximum bid : | 903 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 January 2017 15:16:01 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Histamenon nomisma
Date: c. 1050
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 27 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Magnifique portrait du Christ. Revers de style fin avec un très beau buste de Constantin IX. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : + IHS XIS REX - REGNANTINM.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ nimbé avec le globe crucigère, vêtu du colombium et du pallium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche ; triple grènetis.
Obverse translation : (Jésus Christ roi des Rois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : + CWNST-A-NTN - BASILEYS RM.
Reverse description : Buste couronné avec pendilia de Constantin IX de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une longue croix aux extrémités bouletées de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la gauche ; triple grènetis.
Reverse translation : (Constantin roi des Romains).
Commentary
Scyphate. Le nimbe crucigère est orné de deux petits croissants dans la partie supérieure. Sept globules le long du cou au revers.
Historical background
CONSTANTINE IX MONOMACHOS
(06/12/1042-01/11/1055)
Constantine IX succeeded Michael V and brought Basil II's daughters Zoe and Theodora back to court. He married the second. Constantinople experienced an artistic renaissance under his reign to the detriment of the Treasury. It was in 1054 that the Great Schism occurred between the Church of Constantinople and that of Rome, at the origin of the birth of the Orthodox who no longer recognize the supremacy of the bishop of Rome. Constantine died in 1055. It was Theodora who succeeded him for only 7 months, the last descendant of the Macedonian dynasty.
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