bby_790795 - NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 803-811
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan centré avec un petit manque de métal à 12h. Usure régulière. Jolis bustes. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : N/I/K.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de face de Nicéphore, vêtu du loros, tenant de la main droite une croix potencé.
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste couronné de Stauracius de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant de la main droite un globe crucigère.
Historical background
NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS
(12/803-25/07/811)
Irene was overthrown in 802 by a palace plot and Nicephorus I became emperor. His son Stauracius, who had married Theophano, was appointed co-emperor in 803. In 811, after a brilliant campaign against the Bulgarians, Nicephorus, having defeated Krum, the Tsar of the Bulgarians, took Pliska his capital, but fell into a ambush and was killed. Stauracius, himself seriously wounded, managed to escape and reach Constantinople. He abdicated on October 2, 811 in favor of his brother-in-law Michael I and retired to a monastery where he died early the following year..
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