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Auction 37 16 May 2017
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MICHAEL III the DRUNKARD, 842-867
UNDER THE REGENCY OF HIS MOTHER THEODORA
Solidus 843-856.
Obv. IhSЧ X - RISTOSÝ Bust of Christ with long hair and beard facing. Behind his head cross. He wears pallium and colobium, raises r. hand in benediction and holds book of Gospels in l. hand.
Rev. +MIXAHL S ΘЄ – O – dORA Crowned facing bust of Michael III in chlamys on l. and his mother Theodora in loros on r. Small cross above.
Sear 1687. DOC 2.
4.20 g. Rare. About extremely fine.
Purchased from Bank Leu, Zurich in July 1972.
The obverse type of the depiction of Christ is a return to the obverse type of Jusinian II.
UNDER THE REGENCY OF HIS MOTHER THEODORA
Solidus 843-856.
Obv. IhSЧ X - RISTOSÝ Bust of Christ with long hair and beard facing. Behind his head cross. He wears pallium and colobium, raises r. hand in benediction and holds book of Gospels in l. hand.
Rev. +MIXAHL S ΘЄ – O – dORA Crowned facing bust of Michael III in chlamys on l. and his mother Theodora in loros on r. Small cross above.
Sear 1687. DOC 2.
4.20 g. Rare. About extremely fine.
Purchased from Bank Leu, Zurich in July 1972.
The obverse type of the depiction of Christ is a return to the obverse type of Jusinian II.