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ApameiaSyria, Apameia, AE 17, 36/5 BC. Obv: Tyche facing right; Rev: Athena standing left holding Nike, shield at front, ΑΠΑΜΕΩΝ THΣ EIPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY, Seleukid era date ZOE (36/5 BC) to left of Athena. NISC, but similar to RPC 4364v. Same inscription as Hoover HGC 9, 1431 (S), but his has three ears of grain.Molinari
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Byzantine Empire: Constantine VII - Porphyrogenitus and Zoe (913-959) Follis, Constantinople (Sear-1758)Obv: COnStAnt' CE ZOH b.
Crowned busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Zoe, draped, holding patriarchal cross between them.
Rev: +COnS/ tAnTInO/ CE ZOh bA/ SILIS RO/ mEOn.
Legend in 5 lines.Quant.Geek
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Byzantine Empire: Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus with Zoe, AE Follis. Ex Peter Donald Collection.Constantinople 914-919 A.D. 6.84g - 26.5mm, Axis 5h.
Obv: ✠ COnSTAn CE ZOH b - Crowned facing busts of Constantine, unbearded, on left, wearing loros, and Zoe, wearing chlamys, on right, holding patriarchal cross between them.
Rev: ✠ COnS / tANtINO' / CE ZOH bA / SILIS RO / mEOn - Legend in five lines.
Ref: Sear 1758; DOC 22.
Provenance: Ex Peter Donald Collection. Chris Scarlioli Collection.Christian Scarlioli
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Byzantine Empire: Æ Anonymous Class A1 Follis, Constantinople (Sear 1793) - Attributed to John I Tzimisces (969-976)Obv: +ЄMMA-NOVHΛ; IC-XC to right and left of bust of Christ facing, holding book of gospels, with nimbus
Rev: +IҺSЧS / XRISTЧS / ЬASILЄЧ / ЬASILЄ in four lines
Overstruck on a Constantinople mint follis of Constantine VII and Romanus I (SB 1760), itself overstruck on a Constantinople mint follis of Constantine VII and Zoe. Quant.Geek
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Byzantine, Constantine VII & Zoe AE Follisobv: Facing busts of Constantine VII and Zoe, both crowned and holding long patriarchal cross between them
rev: Legend within five lines
Struck 913-959 A.D.
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Class C follis, sb1825, attributed to Michael IV, 1034-1041 CEObverse: EMMANOVHA - Three -quarter length of Christ Antiphonetes standing facing, wearing nimbus cr. pallium and colobium, raising rt hand in benediction in L. hand book of Gospels, in field to L., IC barred, to r., XC barred.
Reverse: IC-XC/ NI-KA - Jewelled cross with pellet at each end divides inscription into four equal parts, IC--XC/NI--KA
Mint: Contantinople
Date: 1034-1041 CE
25mm, 6.06g
SB 1825 Class C follis
The Obverse is Christ as Antiphonetes, "the guarantor." A famous icon of Christ was so named because, according to a miracle story, it had been held as loan collateral by a creditor. The Byzantine empress Zoë (r. 1028–50) had coins struck with the Antiphonetes image and kept an icon of the type close at hand. "I myself have often seen her, in moments of great distress, clasp the sacred object in her hands, contemplate it, talk to it as if it were indeed alive, and address it with one sweet term of endearment after another," wrote court historian Michael Psellos (1018–ca. 1081).
Source: Icon with Christ Antiphonetes [Byzantine] (1979.217) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Artwileyc
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Class C follis, sb1825, attributed to Michael IV, 1034-1041 CEObverse: EMMANOVHA - Three -quarter length of Christ Antiphonetes standing facing, wearing nimbus cr. pallium and colobium, raising rt hand in benediction in L. hand book of Gospels, in field to L., IC barred, to r., XC barred.
Reverse: IC-XC/ NI-KA - Jewelled cross with pellet at each end divides inscription into four equal parts, IC--XC/NI--KA
Mint: Contantinople
Date: 1034-1041 CE
26mm, 10.17g
SB 1825 Class C follis
The Obverse is Christ as Antiphonetes, "the guarantor." A famous icon of Christ was so named because, according to a miracle story, it had been held as loan collateral by a creditor. The Byzantine empress Zoë (r. 1028–50) had coins struck with the Antiphonetes image and kept an icon of the type close at hand. "I myself have often seen her, in moments of great distress, clasp the sacred object in her hands, contemplate it, talk to it as if it were indeed alive, and address it with one sweet term of endearment after another," wrote court historian Michael Psellos (1018–ca. 1081).
Source: Icon with Christ Antiphonetes [Byzantine] (1979.217) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Artwileyc
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Class C follis, sb1825, attributed to Michael IV, 1034-1041 CEObverse: EMMANOVHA - Three -quarter length of Christ Antiphonetes standing facing, wearing nimbus cr. pallium and colobium, raising rt hand in benediction in L. hand book of Gospels, in field to L., IC barred, to r., XC barred.
Reverse: IC-XC/ NI-KA - Jewelled cross with pellet at each end divides inscription into four equal parts, IC--XC/NI--KA
Mint: Contantinople
Date: 1034-1041 CE
23mm, 4.73g
SB 1825 Class C follis
The Obverse is Christ as Antiphonetes, "the guarantor." A famous icon of Christ was so named because, according to a miracle story, it had been held as loan collateral by a creditor. The Byzantine empress Zoë (r. 1028–50) had coins struck with the Antiphonetes image and kept an icon of the type close at hand. "I myself have often seen her, in moments of great distress, clasp the sacred object in her hands, contemplate it, talk to it as if it were indeed alive, and address it with one sweet term of endearment after another," wrote court historian Michael Psellos (1018–ca. 1081).
Source: Icon with Christ Antiphonetes [Byzantine] (1979.217) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Artwileyc
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Constantine VII and Leo, SB1758Obverse: +CONSTANT CE ZOH B or similar, facing bust 0f Constantine VII, beardless (on L.) and Zoe on r., both crowned and holding between them long patriarchal cross; Constantine wears loros, whilst his mother is clad in chlamys .
Reverse: +CONS/TANTINO'/CE SOHbA/SILIS RO in five lines.
Mint: Constantinople
Date: 913-944 CE
25mm, 6.55g
SB 1758wileyc
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Constantine VII and Zoe, SBCV 1758+COnStAnt CE ZOH b
Facing busts of Constantine left wearing loros and Zoe right wearing chlamys, with patriarchal Cross between
COnS / tAntIno / CE ZOH bA / SILIS RO / mEOn in four lines
AE follis, 24mm, 3.65gnovacystis
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Constantine VII and Zoe, SBCV 1758+COnStAnt CE ZOH b
Facing busts of Constantine left wearing loros and Zoe right wearing chlamys, with patriarchal Cross between
COnS / tAntIno / CE ZOH bA / SILIS RO / mEOn in four lines
AE follis, 24mm, 6.58gnovacystis
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CONSTANTINE VII, Follis, Sear 1758CONSTANTINE VII A.D. 913-959. Æ Follis, Obv. Busts of Constantine and Zoe facing, patriarchal cross between them. Rev. COnStAntEInO CE ZOH BASILIS ROmEOn. 4gm 27mm BCV 1758Podiceps
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Diocletian EVATOV LPotin Tetradrachm 20mm 7.2g
ob: ΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: EVATOV L
Elpis standing left holding flower and lifting hem of skirt
exergue: Δ
Curtis 1988, Emmett 4046, cf. SNG Hunt 4893; Milne 5086, BMC -, Zoega 73, Dattari 5675
brown patina with some encrustmentrennrad12020
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Diocletian L Enatov ElpisPotin Tetradrachm 20mm 7.2g
ob: ΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: EVATOV L
Elpis standing left holding flower and lifting hem of skirt
exergue: Δ?
Curtis 1988, Emmett 4046, cf. SNG Hunt 4893; Milne 5086, BMC -, Zoega 73, Dattari 5675
brown patinarennrad12020
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Diocletian LΓ TychePotin Tetradrachm 21mm 6.96g
ob: AKΓOVAΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LΓ
Tyche standing facing, head left with modius, holding rudder and cornucopiae
Curtis 2025, Emmett 4082, SNG Hunt 4861, Milne 4821, BMC 2524, Zoega XXI 32, Dattari 5755
brown patina with green and white encrustments, sharp detailrennrad12020
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Diocletian LA Dikaiosyne seated leftPotin Tetradrachm
ob: AKΓOVAΛΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LA
Diokaiosyne seated left in chiton and peplos over shoulder holding scale and cornucopiae
Curtis 1966, Emmett 4034, SNG Hunt -; Milne 4748, BMC 2492, Zoega V.5, Dattari 5653
brown patinarennrad12020
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Diocletian LA ElpisPotin Tetradrachm 7.08g
ob: AKΓOVAΛΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LA
Elpis standing left holding flower and lifting hem of skirt
Curtis 1980, Emmett 4083, SNG Hunt 4846; Milne 4706, BMC 2499, Zoega II.2, Dattari 5669
nice contrasting green brown patina
ex: Ken Dorneyrennrad12020
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Diocletian LA Nike rightPotin Tetradrachm 6.54g
ob: AKΓOVAΛΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LA
Nike advancing right holding wreath and palm
Curtis 2008, Emmett 4064, SNG -; Milne 4753, BMC 2515, Zoega -, Dattari 5720
brown patinarennrad12020
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Diocletian LA Tyche reclining leftPotin Tetradrachm 21mm 8.56g
ob: AKΓOVAΛΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LA
Tyche reclining left on garlanded couch, right hand on rudder, left supporting head. above LA
Lectisternium Fortunae
Curtis 2023, Emmett 4083, SNG Hunt 4851; Milne 4756, BMC 2527, Zoega I.1, Dattari 5766
nice contrasting green brown patina
ex. Art Noot collectionrennrad12020
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Diocletian LB* EaglePotin Tetradrachm 19mm 8.41g
ob: AKΓOVAΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: L * B
Eagle facing left, head right with wreath star above left
crusty brown patina
Curtis -, Emmett 4037, SNG Hunt 4859; Milne 4808, BMC 2531, Zoega XII 127b, Dattari 5793
rennrad12020
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Diocletian LB* HomonoiaPotin Tetradrachm 21mm 9.85g
ob: AKΓOVAΔIOKΛHTIANOCCEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LB*
Homonoia standing left holding double cornucopiae in left with right hand outstretched
Curtis 2004, Emmett 4060, SNG Hunt -, Milne 4797, BMC 2512, Zoega VIII 15, Dattari 5703
nice contrasting green brown patina, large planchet
Ex Bonhams London sale18th June 2000 part lot 195.rennrad12020
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Kuba 1 Peso 1981 (Kupfer-Nickel) Zentralamerikanische SpieleGewicht: 11,6g
Erhaltung: unzirkuliert _346
Antonivs Protti
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Maximian LΔ AlexandriaPotin Tetradrachm 19mm
ob: AKMAOVAMAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LΔ
Alexandria turreted standing left holding bust of Serapis and scepter
Curtis 2052, Emmett 4093, SNG Hunt 4920; Milne 4904, BMC 2593, Zoega XIII 26, Dattari 5833
brown patina rennrad12020
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Maximian LΔ* EaglePotin Tetradrachm 7.21g
ob: AKMAOVAMAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LΔ star in left field
Eagle facing left with wings folded head turned back right with wreath in beak
cf. Curtis 2060(no star), Emmett 4108, SNG Hunt 4924; Milne 4921, BMC 2596(no star), Zoega XIV 27, Dattari 6007
nice mahogany brown patina rennrad12020
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Maximian LA* HomonoiaPotin Tetradrachm 19mm
ob: AKMOVAMAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LA
Homonoia standing left holding double cornucopiae with right hand raised star to left
Curtis -, Emmett 4141, cf. SNG Hunt 4903(no star); Milne 4802, BMC 2560, Zoega III 3, Dattari 5923
brown patina, rx off centerrennrad12020
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Maximian LB * Athena seatedPotin Tetradrachm 19.7mm 6.63g
ob: AKMOVAMAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LB *
Athena nikephoros enthroned left holding spear with shield at feet, star in left field
Curtis -, Emmett 4102, SNG Hunt -; Milne 4827, BMC -, cf. Zoega 11(no star), Dattari 5945
crisp detail, gray and brown patinarennrad12020
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Maximian LE TychePotin Tetradrachm 19mm
ob: AKMAOVAMAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LE
Tyche standing left with cornucopia and and rudder
Curtis 2110 Emmett 4160,SNG Hunt 4928, Dattari 5989, cf, Zoega XV 28 (with star), BMC 2588, Milne 4932
brown patina , some encrustment on obrennrad12020
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Maximian LH exB EaglePotin Tetradrachm 19mm 7.87g
ob: MAΞIMIANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LH
ex: B (retrograde)
Eagle facing left wings folded head facing right with wreath in beak
Curtis 2061, Emmett 4108, SNG Hunt -; Milne 5075, BMC -, Zoega XXVI 55, Dattari 6011
brown patina rennrad12020
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Maximian LI EaglePotin Tetradrachm 18mm
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LI
Eagle facing left with wings folded head turned back right with wreath in beak
Curtis -, Emmett 4108, SNG Hunt -; Milne 5190, BMC -, Zoega -, Dattari 6015
brown patina with lighter high pointsrennrad12020
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Maximian LI Nike Potin Tetradrachm 20mm
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LI
Nike advancing right holding wreath
Curtis 2105, Emmett 4147, SNG Hunt -; Milne 5180, BMC 2585, Zoega 63, Dattari 5972
rusty brown patina rennrad12020
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Maximian LIA* DikaiosynePotin Tetradrachm 20mm
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LI A *
Dikaiosyne standing left holding scales in right and cornucopiae in left
Curtis 2058, Emmett 4103, SNG Hunt -; Milne 5201, BMC -, Zoega -, Dattari 5855
brown patina
rennrad12020
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Maximian LS * Nike right Potin Tetradrachm 20mm 6.46g
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LS *
Nike advancing right with wreath and palm, star in right field
Curtis -, Emmett 4148, cf, SNG Hunt 4931(star in left field); Milne 4984, BMC 2578, Zoega 32(?), Dattari -
nice brown patina
ex Ken Dorney Auction 6 lot 220rennrad12020
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Maximian LS* Nike leftPotin Tetradrachm 21mm 8.04g
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LS *
Nike advancing left holding wreath and palm, star in right field
Curtis 2099, Emmett 4148, SNG Hunt 4932; Milne 4988, BMC 2577, Zoega 32(?), Dattari 5947
grayish-black patina with some encrustmentrennrad12020
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Maximian LZ Dikaiosyne ex ΓPotin Tetradrachm 19mm
ob: MAΞIMI | ANOC CEB
laureate draped and cuirassed bust right
rx: LZ
ex: Γ
Dikaiosyne standing left holding scales in right and cornucopiae in left
Curtis -, Emmett 4103, SNG Hunt 4938; Milne 5047, BMC -, Zoega -, Dattari 5852
nice tan and brown patinarennrad12020
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Sear 1758Constantine VII Porphyrogennitos (913 – 959 CE) Follis, weight 5.5g, diameter 24mm. Mint of Constantinople, struck between 914 and 919 CE, the period when the Empress Zoë Carbonopsina (pictured with her son on the obverse) acted as regent. Abu Galyon
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Zoe, mother of Constantine VII, 913-959 CE.Æ Follis (23.7 mm, 5.15 g). Constantinople mint. Struck 914 - 919 CE.
Obv: +CONSTANT CE ZO Hb, Facing busts of Constantine, wearing loros, and Zoe, clad in chlamys, both crowned and holding long cross between them.
Rev: +CONS/TANTINO/ CE ZOH bA/SILIS RO/MEON.
Sear 1758; Berk 928; DOC 22.
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[1640aii] Leo VI, the Wise, 6 January 870 - 11 May 912 A.D.Bronze follis, SBCV 1729, DO 8.6, nice VF, 5.122g, 25.3mm, 180o, Constantinople mint, c. 886 - 912 A.D.; Obverse: LEON bASILVS ROm, bust facing, with short beard, wearing crown and chlamys and holding akakia in left hand; Reverse: + LEON/En QEO bA/SILVS R/OMEOn, legend in four lines. Ex FORVM.
Leo VI "the Wise" or "the Philosopher" (Greek: Λέων ΣΤ΄, Leōn VI), (September 19, 866 – May 11, 912) was Byzantine emperor from 886 to 912 during one of the most brilliant periods of the state's history.
Background
Leo was born to Eudokia Ingerina who was at the time mistress of Emperor Michael III and wife of his Caesar Basil. Which of the two men was his father is uncertain. He was officially acknowledged by Basil as his son, but he apparently regarded Leo as Michael's son and favored his undisputedly biological son Constantine.
On the night of September 23-September 24, 867, Michael was assassinated by Basil who succeeded him as Emperor Basil I. As the second eldest son of the Emperor, Leo was associated on the throne in 870 and became the direct heir on the death of his older half-brother Constantine in 879. However, he and his father hated each other and Basil almost had Leo blinded as a teenager. On August 29, 886, Basil died in a hunting accident, though he claimed on his deathbed that there was an assassination attempt in which Leo was possibly involved.
Domestic Policy
One of the first actions of Leo VI after his succession was the reburial of Michael III in Constantinople, which may have contributed to the suspicion that he was Michael's son. Seeking political reconciliation, the new emperor secured the support of the officials in the capital, and surrounded himself with bureaucrats like Stylianos Zoutzes and the eunuch Samonas. His attempts to control the great aristocratic families (e.g., the Phokadai and the Doukai) occasionally led to serious conflicts. Leo also attempted to control the church through his appointments to the patriarchate. He dismissed the Patriarch Photios of Constantinople, who had been his tutor, and replaced him with his own 19-year old brother Stephen in December 886. On Stephen's death in 893, Leo replaced him with Zaoutzes' nominee, Antony II Kaleuas, who died in 901. Leo then promoted his own imperial secretary (mystikos) Nicholas, but replaced him with his spiritual father Euthymios in 907.
Leo completed work on the Basilica, the Greek translation and update of the law code issued by Justinian I, which had been started during the reign of Basil.
Foreign Policy
Leo VI was not as successful in battle as Basil had been. In indulging his chief counselor Stylianos Zaoutzes, Leo provoked a war with Simeon I of Bulgaria in 894, but was defeated. Bribing the Magyars to attack the Bulgarians from the north, Leo scored an indirect success in 895. However, deprived of his new allies, he lost the major Battle of Boulgarophygon in 896 and had to make the required commercial concessions and to pay annual tribute.
The Emirate of Sicily took Taormina, the last Byzantine outpost on the island of Sicily, in 902. In 904 the renegade Leo of Tripolis sacked Thessalonica with his Muslim pirates (an event described in The Capture of Thessalonica, by John Kameniates). In 907 Constantinople was attacked by the Kievan Rus' under Oleg of Novgorod, who was seeking favourable trading rights with the empire. Leo paid them off, but they attacked again in 911, and a trade treaty was finally signed. The admiral Himerios, a relative of Leo's last wife, Zoe Karbonopsina scored some successes against the Muslim fleets in 908 and raided Cyprus in 910, but in 912 a fleet of 112 dromons and 75 pamphyloi was soundly defeated in its attempt to conquer Crete.
Fourth Marriage Dispute
Leo VI caused a major scandal with his numerous marriages which failed to produce a legitimate heir to the throne. His first wife, whom Basil had forced him to marry, died in 897, and he married Zoe Zaoutzaina, the daughter of his adviser Stylianos Zaoutzes, though she died as well in 899. Upon this marriage Leo created the title of basileopatōr ("father of the emperor") for his father-in-law.
After Zoe's death a third marriage was technically illegal, but he married again, only to have his third wife die in 901. Instead of marrying a fourth time, which would have been an even greater sin than a third marriage (according to the Patriarch Nicholas Mystikos) Leo took as mistress, Zoe Karbonopsina. He married her only after she had given birth to a son in 905, but incurred the opposition of the patriarch. Replacing Nicholas Mystikos with Euthymios, Leo got his marriage recognized by the church, but opened up a conflict within it and allowed new grounds for papal intervention into Byzantine affairs when he sought and obtained papal consent.
Succession
The future Constantine VII was the illegitimate son born before Leo's uncanonical fourth marriage to Zoe Karbonopsina. To strengthen his son's position as heir, Leo had him crowned as co-emperor on May 15, 908, when he was only two years old. Leo VI died on May 2, 912. He was succeeded by his younger brother Alexander, who had reigned as emperor alongside his father and brother since 879.
Legends
According to Bishop Liutprand of Cremona, and probably inspired by stories about the caliph Harun al-Rashid, Leo would sometimes disguise himself and look for injustice or corruption. On one account, he was even captured by the city guards during one of his investigations. He wanted to know if the city patrol was doing its job appropriately. He was walking alone, disguised, late in the evening without any documentation. He bribed two patrols for 12 nomismata, and moved on. However, the third city patrol arrested him. When a terrified guardian recognized the jailed ruler in the morning, the arresting officer was rewarded for doing his duty, while the other patrols were dismissed and punished severely.
As John Julius Norwich notes in his book A Short History of Byzantium, "He [Leo VI] had proved himself, if not a great Emperor, at any rate an outstandingly good one . . . In his lifetime Leo was genuinely loved by his people, and after his death they had good cause to be grateful" (Norwich, John Julius. A Short History of Byzantium. New York: Vintage Books, 1997. 165).
References
The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford University Press, 1991.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_VI_the_Wise
Edited by J. P. Fitzgerald, Jr.Cleisthenes
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