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Histamenon - Constantine IX
| Uitgever | Byzantine Empire |
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| Jaar | 1042-1055 |
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| Valuta | Second Solidus Nomisma (720-1092) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Facing bust of Christ Pantokrator, nimbate with a jewelled cruciform nimbus, depicted in frontal view wearing ornate imperial robes (pallium and colobium). Christ holds the Gospels in both hands before him, rendered with fine detail. A circular legend in Greek characters surrounds the central figure within a beaded inner border. The abbreviations IC XC (Iesous Christos) appear flanking the nimbus in the field. |
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| Oplage | ND (1042-1055) |
| Aanvullende informatie |
Constantine IX Monomachos came to power not through military achievement or dynastic right but by marrying Empress Zoe at age 42 — his third marriage, her third emperor. His reign was fiscally disastrous: he systematically debased the gold coinage and disbanded the Armenian frontier troops in favor of tax revenue, a decision that left Anatolia exposed to Seljuk incursion within a decade of his death. The histamenon of his reign sits at the beginning of that debasement curve, still nominally full-weight but increasingly variable in actual gold fineness across the issue years.