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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Comnen Dynasty| > |Michael VII| > BZ110703
Byzantine Empire, Michael VII Ducas, 24 October 1071 - 24 March 1078 A.D.
|Michael| |VII|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Michael| |VII| |Ducas,| |24| |October| |1071| |-| |24| |March| |1078| |A.D.|, Sear notes the type is frequently overstruck on folles of Romanus IV, SBCV 1866.

Michael's reign was a period of disasters and territorial losses. Unable to face these challenges, Michael VII abdicated and lived as a monk for the last 12 years of his life.
BZ110703. Bronze follis, DOC III-2 14b; Wroth BMC 26; Morrisson BnF 55/Cp/AE/2; Ratto 2042; Berk 958; Sommer 55.8; SBCV 1878, VF, overstruck with strong undertype effects, Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 6.375g, maximum diameter 25.8mm, die axis 180o, obverse bust of Christ facing, cross behind head, wearing pallium and colobium, raising right in benediction, Gospels in left hand, IC - XC (Greek abbreviation: IΗΣOúΣ XPIΣTOΣ - Jesus Christ) flanking above large stars; reverse + MIXAHΛ RACIΛ O Δ, bearded bust facing wearing crown and loros, labarum in right, globus cruciger in left; SOLD










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