bby_376850 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 280.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 717-725
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,81 g.
Rarity : R1
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Bustes de Léon III couronné de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite et l’akakia de la main gauche.
Obverse legend : [Leon Es V-ONSt]
Obverse translation : (Léon et Constantin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : X/X/X - N/N/N.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d’un buste de Constantin V couronné de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous le proposons à la vente.
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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