bby_218017 - NICEPHORUS I Follis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 125.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 125.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: 802-803
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,79 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan quadrangulaire irrégulier, décentré. Beaux portraits. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste couronné de face de Nicéphore Ier, vêtu du loros, tenant un croix potencée de la main droite.
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste couronné de Nicéphore Ier de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant de la main droite un globe crucigère.
Historical background
NICEPHORUS I
(1/11/806-25/07/811)
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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