bby_588720 - PHILIPPICUS BARDANES Semissis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 1 500.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2021)
Price : 1 500.00 €
Type : Semissis
Date: 711-713
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,06 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Philippicus
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FILEPICYS MYL-TYS AN.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Philippicus de face, vêtu du loros, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un scipio de la main gauche surmonté d’un aigle.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Filepicus Multus Anni”, (Notre seigneur Phlippicus pour de nombreuses années).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYS.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur un globe.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (La victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Un minuscule petit grafitti dans le champ gauche du revers (pi). Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
Historical background
PHILIPPICUS BARDANES
(4/11/711- 3/06/713
Philippicus, of Armenian origin, revolted against the arbitrary power of Justinian II. The revolt originated in Cherson, which Justinian had punished for having been the place of his detention. Bardanes marched on Constantinople and Justinian II and his son, Tiberius were put to death. Favorable to the Monophysite heresy, he found himself deprived of numerous supports in the West, in particular in Rome. Very quickly, Philippicus had to face the double threat of the Bulgarians with Tervel their khan, former ally of Justinian II during his reinstallation in Constantinople in 705 who practically managed under the walls of the capital and in the face of the Muslim danger which scored points and continued their work of undermining in Asia Minor. Eventually the emperor was deposed, blinded and sent to a monastery where he soon died..
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