v23_0685 - LEONTIUS Semissis

MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 865.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 1 000.00 €

Type : Semissis

Date: c. 695-698

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 23 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,13 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Très beau portrait. Flan légèrement voilé. Revers de haut relief

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.15 - R.- - Do.3 /4 - BN/B.6 - BC.1332 (750£)

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire provient de la collection Baude, 25-26 avril 1996, n° 257

Obverse

Obverse legend : D LEO-N PE AG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, couronnée de face, vêtu du loros, tenant le globe crucigère.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Leontius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Seigneur Léon perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICOTRIA AVGYS.

Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur un globule.

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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