BYZANTINE EMPIRE.Constintine X Ducas AD 1050-1067.AE.Follis. "Jesus Christ Coin"

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JESUS CHRIST ON COIN
BYZANTINE EMPIRE.Constintine X
Ducas AD 1050-1067
.AE.Follis.
Mint of CONSTANTINOPLE.
The emperor’s identity is assured by the presence of the family name. More than one type of seal was used in Constantine’s chancery. Seibt (
Bleisiegel,
no. 21) is inclined to date to the period ca. 1062–ca. 1064 the type with Christ represented half-length. Seibt (
Bleisiegel,
no. 22) believes that the type showing Christ enthroned, featuring a reverse on which the emperor is shown standing with the Virgin, who is in the act of crowning him, dates later, namely from 1065 to 1067. Seibt is certainly correct that the iconography of Constantine’s seals underwent significant change. In exploring the question of date (
Bleisiegel,
p. 93), Seibt points out that in 1064/65 the
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attacked the Balkans and inflicted on it severe depredations. From October to December of 1066 the emperor was felled with a grave illness. We agree with Seibt that, in light of these events, the emperor may well have wished to express through his seals the idea that his reign enjoyed the Virgin’s blessing and help. We therefore favor assigning the seals that show the emperor alone prior to the period of ca. 1065 and the seals that depict him blessed by the Virgin to the years 1065–67.
Obverse: Facing bust of Christ, nimbate, wearing pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of gospel held in left.
Reverse.Facing bust of Constantine X wearing loros, holding long cross in right hand and akaia in left.
Ref:Sear 1854.
Very fine, earthern deposit in fields.
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