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Live auction - bby_830833 - MICHAEL II and THEOPHILOS Solidus

MICHAEL II and THEOPHILOS Solidus MS
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Estimate : 800 €
Price : 1 338 €
Maximum bid : 1 400 €
End of the sale : 06 June 2023 16:10:07
bidders : 9 bidders
Type : Solidus
Date: 821-829
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : gold
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,84 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan épais, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portraits magnifiques de haut relief. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente du Crédit de la Bourse du 24 novembre 1995, n° 88 et de la collection P. G

Obverse


Obverse legend : MI-XAIHL BA.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et couronné de Michel II de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une croix potencée de la main droite.
Obverse translation : (Michel roi).

Reverse


Reverse description : Buste diadémé et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère.
Reverse legend : QEOF-ILOS ES.
Reverse translation : (Théophile despote).

Commentary


Exemplaire tout à fait exceptionnel pour ce type de monnayage.

Historical background


MICHAEL II and THEOPHILOS

(12/05/821-2/10/829)

Michel, like Justin three hundred years earlier, is a soldier of low extraction. He joins his son Théophile from the beginning of the reign, May 12, 821 or June 1, 822.

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