bby_218925 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Follis
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Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 735-741
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,18 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, un peu court sur les légendes. Bien venu des deux côtés. jolie patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Léon III debout de face, barbu, couronné, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant l’akakia de la main droite.
Obverse legend : L/E/O/N - D/E/S/P.
Obverse translation : (Léon despote).
Reverse
Reverse description : Constantin V debout de face, imberbe, couronné, vêtu de la chalmyde, tenant l’akakia de la main droite.
Reverse legend : [K]/w/N/S - D/E/S/P.
Reverse translation : (Constantin despote).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sur ce follis, Léon III et Constantin V sont vêtus de la seule chlamyde et ne tiennent que l’akakia seule.
Historical background
LEO III and CONSTANTINE V
(25/03/720-18/06/741)
Leo III, a peasant from Syria, became august on March 25, 717. He overthrew Theodosius III on July 24 of the same year. He victoriously pushed back the Arabs who had come to besiege Constantinople (717-718). Leo III, nicknamed the Isaurian, founded a dynasty destined to reign over the Byzantine Empire for a century. His son, Constantine V, was associated with the throne from 720. The Arab enemy was contained and Europe was saved. He allied himself with the Bulgarians and the Khazars. In 733, Constantine V, married the daughter of the Khazar khan. Leo III, before dying won a great victory over the Muslims in 740 at Acroinon. But the iconoclastic quarrel which began under his reign in 726 was to shake the ideological structures of the Byzantine Empire..
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