v43_1095 - NICEPHORUS I and STAURACIUS Follis
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 195.00 €
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 165.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 195.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 803-811
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,14 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, large et bien centré des deux côtés avec le métal pincé de deux côtés. Usure sur le portrait de Nicéphore Ier et très beau portrait de Stauracius. Joli revers. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Bustes couronnés, vêtus de la chlamyde de Nicéphore Ier barbu et de Stauracius de face ; entre eux, une croix.
Reverse
Reverse legend : [X/X/X] - N/N/N/ A.
Reverse description : Grande M surmontée d’une croisette.
Commentary
Ce type anépigraphe au droit a connu plusieurs attributions avant que Philip Grierson ne les donne à Nicéphore Ier et Stauracius.
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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