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Bulgaria, First Empire. Simeon I 'the Great' (AD 893-927) PB Seal. Constantinople, AD 913/914. Garbled legend, Christ seated on ornate throne with lyre-shaped back, nimbate, with right hand raised in benediction, and holding book of Gospels in left / +CVMЄON ЄN XPIC' RACIΛЄ POMЄ W N +, Simeon standing facing, bearded, wearing crown and loros draped over his arm, the end decorated with a cross; he holds a globus cruciger with his right hand and a cross-sceptre in his left. Yurukowa 7; SM 49, 1999, p. 79, fig. B; Tkalec AG, 7 May 2009, 237 = Stack's Moneta Imperii Romani ByzantinI 12 January 2009, 3533 = Künker 41, Osnabrück March 1998, 256. 9.18g, 20mm, 6h.
Good Very Fine. Of pleasing style, struck off-centre on a small module resulting in the loss of Simeon's head, but retaining the important start of the legend, +CVMЄON. Extremely Rare, only one other example recorded on CoinArchives.
Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from AD 893 to 927, Simeon's successes on the battlefield grew Bulgaria to its greatest ever territorial extent, made it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe, and also brought a period of unmatched cultural prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture.
Dating to the latter half of his reign, this lead seal succinctly represents the changes that the Bulgarian state underwent: Simeon is here styled as 'Basileos of the Bulgarians and Romans' (whereas previously he had simply been styled 'Archon of the Bulgarians') on a seal whose dies were made by the finest hand in the mint at Constantinople.
Good Very Fine. Of pleasing style, struck off-centre on a small module resulting in the loss of Simeon's head, but retaining the important start of the legend, +CVMЄON. Extremely Rare, only one other example recorded on CoinArchives.
Ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire from AD 893 to 927, Simeon's successes on the battlefield grew Bulgaria to its greatest ever territorial extent, made it the most powerful state in contemporary Eastern Europe, and also brought a period of unmatched cultural prosperity and enlightenment later deemed the Golden Age of Bulgarian culture.
Dating to the latter half of his reign, this lead seal succinctly represents the changes that the Bulgarian state underwent: Simeon is here styled as 'Basileos of the Bulgarians and Romans' (whereas previously he had simply been styled 'Archon of the Bulgarians') on a seal whose dies were made by the finest hand in the mint at Constantinople.