Watch List notes:

Constantine VI & Irene, with Leo III, Constantine V and Leo IV 780-797, AV solidus, Constantinople c.792-793 (4,42 g). Facing busts of Constantine VI and Irene, wearing chlamys and loros and holding globus with cross/Constantine V, Leo III and IV seated facing each wearing crown and chlamys Ex. CNG no.88 14/9-2011 no.1712. . Irene was a strong willed an ambitious lady. She ruled with her son Constantine VI, but when he showed signs of independence, she had him blinded and deposed in 797. When Charles the Great was crowned emperor of Rome by the pope in 800, she proposed marriage to him, obviously to reunite the former Western empire with the Eastern. He wisely ignored her. Grade:1+/01