Live auction - bby_535558 - LEONTIUS Solidus
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| Estimate : | 2 000 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 September 2019 15:41:45 |
Type : Solidus
Date: c. 695-698
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,38 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan court idéalement centré des deux côtés. Joli buste, finement détaillé. Faiblesse de frappe à 1h au revers et à 5h au droit
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D LEO-N PE AG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, couronnée de face, vêtu du loros, tenant l’akakia de la main droite et le globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Leontius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Seigneur Léon perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA AVGY(GAMMA).
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Historical background
LEONTIUS
(late 695 - late 698)
General Leonce, strategist of the nome Hellas revolted against the tyranny of Justinian II in 695. The emperor had his tongue and nose cut off and was sent into exile in Cherson. Taking advantage of the political crisis, the Arabs resumed their victorious conquest of North Africa and seized Carthage in 698. Leonce's regime did not survive this crisis. He was overthrown by Aspimar who took the name of Tiberius III. Léonce was exiled after being mutilated too. In 705, when Justinian II regained power, after torturing them and exposing them to the public, Leonce and Tiberius III were both executed..
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