Baldwin's of St. James's
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Ancient Coins, Byzantine Coins, Theodosius III of Adramytium (715-717), solidus, Rome mint, ∂N TҺЄODOSIS AVς, crowned bust facing, wearing loros, holding globus cruciger in right hand, akakia in left, rev. VICTORI AVς, cross potent set on three steps; L to left, star to right; in ex. cross of four pellets, CONOB, wt. 3.44 gms. (DOC.11 (A officina in place of pellets); MIB.N8 (same dies); SB.1498), graffito X in obverse field, good very fine, extremely rare, only one cited in MIBE
Little is known about Theodosius III. He was a tax-gatherer from Adramytium who reluctantly accepted the purple when the troops in Opsikion revolted against Anastasius II. He appears to have had little appetite for governing and abdicated in 717 to become a monk. He has been identified with the bishop 'Theodosius of Ephesus, son of Apsimar', who was spiritual advisor to Leo III in the 720s and presided over Constantine V's Iconoclastic Council in 754.
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Little is known about Theodosius III. He was a tax-gatherer from Adramytium who reluctantly accepted the purple when the troops in Opsikion revolted against Anastasius II. He appears to have had little appetite for governing and abdicated in 717 to become a monk. He has been identified with the bishop 'Theodosius of Ephesus, son of Apsimar', who was spiritual advisor to Leo III in the 720s and presided over Constantine V's Iconoclastic Council in 754.
($2750-3500)