E-auction 161-98293 - bby_387467 - JOHN I TZIMISKES Follis

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Estimate :	150 €
Price :	67 €
Maximum bid :	113 €
End of the sale :	16 May 2016 15:22:30
bidders :	7 bidders

Type : Follis

Date: c. 969-976

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : copper

Diameter : 32 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 14,16 g.

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan très large et épais, bien centré des deux côtés à l’usure régulière. Beau portrait du Christ. Épigraphie élégante au revers. Patine noire

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.- - R.- - Do.A1 /2, pl XLVIII - BN/B.- - BC.1793 (classe A1) - DMBR.40 /1 (150€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : + [EMMA - NOVHA]/ IC - XC.

Obverse description : Buste du Christ Antiphonetes debout de face, avec le globe crucigère, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, bénissant de la main droite et tenant les Évangiles de la gauche.

Obverse translation : (Dieu avec nous).