v32_0779 - THEOPHILUS Follis
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 175.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis
Date: 830/1-842
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,41 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Très beau buste, de haut relief et de style fin. Revers un peu mou. Jolie patine noire brillante
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : QEOFIL - BASIL.
Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, coiffé de la tufa, vêtu de la chlamyde et tenant le labarum de la main droite et de la gauche, un globe crucigère .
Obverse translation : (Théophile roi).
Reverse
Reverse legend : +QEO/ FILE AVG/ OVSTE SV/ NICAS.
Reverse description : en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : (Théophile auguste proclame sa victoire).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
THEOPHILUS
(2/10/829-20/01/842)
Michael II, like Justin three hundred years earlier, is a soldier of low extraction. He joined his son Théophile from the beginning of the reign, May 12, 821 or June 1, 822, and the latter succeeded him in 829. Théophile was a cultivated man and a scholar who continued the fight against opponents of iconoclasm , but with moderation and justice. He associated his eldest son Constantine to the throne, but the latter died in 831. He had to face the rise of Islamic power and, at the end of the reign, he saw the fall of Amorium, the fortress from which he originated. He died in 842 and his son, Michael III the drunkard, succeeded him.
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