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Live auction - bby_535844 - JOHN I TZIMISKES Histamenon nomisma

JOHN I TZIMISKES Histamenon nomisma XF
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Estimate : 1 800 €
Price : 900 €
Maximum bid : 1 400 €
End of the sale : 10 March 2020 15:39:22
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Histamenon nomisma
Date: 969-976
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,09 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré à l’usure régulière. Joli revers

Obverse


Obverse legend : + IHS XPS REX - REGNANTIYM.
Obverse description : Buste du Christ de face, portant le nimbe crucigère, vêtu du pallium et du colombium, la main droite bénissante et tenant de la main gauche les Évangiles.
Obverse translation : (Jésus-Christ roi des rois).

Reverse


Reverse description : Bustes vus à mi-corps de la Vierge à droite qui couronne Jean Ier à gauche ; la Vierge est nimbée et vêtue de la stola et du maphorium, Nicéphore II est couronné avec pendilia bouletés, vêtu du loros ; ils tiennent tous deux la croix patriarcale bouletée ; Jean est couronné par la main de Dieu sortant du ciel.
Reverse legend : MQ/ QEOTOS - bOHQ. Iw dES
Reverse translation : (La Mère de Dieu/ Jean despote).

Historical background


JOHN I TZIMISKES

(12/11/969-01/10/976)

John I succeeded Nicephorus II Phocas who had been assassinated at the instigation of John and Theophano, the second wife of Nicephorus. John, a great general, triumphed over the Bulgarians in 971. He began a brilliant campaign in Palestine, but died of typhoid.

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