bby_943033 - LEO III and CONSTANTINE V Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 735-741
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais bien centré. Beaux portraits à l’usure régulière. Joli revers. Patine vert clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Bustes de Léon III à gauche et Constantin V à droite couronnés, vêtus de la chlamyde, tenant chacun l’akakia de la main droite.
Obverse legend : Leon s VO-NStA
Obverse translation : (Léon et Constantin).
Reverse
Reverse legend : X/X/X - N/N/N// A.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d’une croisette.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la troisième 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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