bby_332635 - THEOPHILUS Semissis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 850.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 850.00 €
Type : Semissis
Date: 831-842
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,71 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés. Très beaux portraits. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu du loros, tenant une croix potencée de la main droite.
Obverse legend : QEO-FILOS
Obverse translation : (Théophile).
Reverse
Reverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Théophile de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère.
Reverse legend : QEO-FILOS
Reverse translation : (Théophile).
Commentary
Pour le semissis, droit et revers sont inversés, le buste vêtu du loros étant le droit.
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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