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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Macedonian Dynasty| > |Constantine IX| > BZ86355
Constantine IX Monomachus, 12 June 1042 - 11 January 1055
|Constantine| |IX|, |Constantine| |IX| |Monomachus,| |12| |June| |1042| |-| |11| |January| |1055|, The full inscription runs from the obverse legend to the reverse legend, + ΔECΠOINA CWZOIC EVCEBH MONOMAXON, "O Lady, preserve the pious Monomachus." In DOC III, Grierson writes, "They may perhaps have been struck when the rebel Leo Tornikes appeared before the walls of Constantinople in September 1047, but there were too many other occasions in the reign when Constantine must have felt the desirability of the Virgin's protection for this to be more then a conjecture."
BZ86355. Silver scyphate miliaresion, DOC III-2 7; Wroth BMC 16; Morrisson BnF 1; Ratto ; Sommer 48.7; SBCV 1834; none with this legend error, F/VF, well centered, toned, marks, edge crack, holed (frequent for the type), Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey) mint, weight 2.801g, maximum diameter 26.7mm, die axis 180o, 12 Jun 1042 - 11 Jan 1055; obverse + ΔECΠOINA CWZOIC, The Virgin Mary, orans, standing facing on dais, nimbate, wearing tunic and maphorion, MP - ΘV (Greek abbreviation: Mother of God) across field; reverse EVCEBH MONOMAXNON (sic, should end ...XON), Constantine standing facing, bearded, crown with cross and pendilia, military attire consisting of scale armor cuirass, cloak, tunic, and high boots, long cross with pellets at ends in right hand, left hand wresting on sheathed sword with point grounded; scarce; SOLD










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