CHRIST / BYZANTINE / ROMANUS III Æ 40 Nummi Follis Coin 1028 -1034 AD./ GGcoins

Description

“BYZANTINE EMPIRE”
Romanus III,  Argyrus
Constantinople Mint;
1028 -1034 AD.
Anonymous  40 Nummi AE Follis:
Size;  (31mm.)  Weight: (10.gm.)
Description:
Obverse:  Christ
bust facing, wearing nimbus
cruciger, pallium and colobium, holding
gospels with both hands,
IC XC in fields...
Reverse:
Double stamped, in fields
IS-XS (Jesus Christ)
bAS-ILE / bAS-ILE (King of Kings)
legend in 3 lines...
Ref:
DOC B 1.1-64,  SBCV 1823  Class B
Personalized COA included
The Coin:
A very pleasing, very large Christ AE Follis, an excellent example of
Byzantine era coin
,
it saw little use before it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
Always Authentic, I have never knowingly sold a copy or reproduction!
As grading
is subjective please Judge the coin photos to determine this for yourself.
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History;
Romanos III Argyros
was Byzantine emperor (November 15, 1028 - April 11, 1034).
His last name is Greek for "Silver".

Romanos Argyros was the son of an unnamed member of
the Argyros family and a great-grandson of Emperor Romanos I. Under Basil II, Romanos
served as judge, and under Constantine VIII he became prefect of Constantinople.
Romanos attracted the attention of Constantine VIII, who forced him to divorce his wife
(sending her into a monastery) and to marry the emperor's daughter Zoe.
The marriage took place on November 12, 1028, and three days later Constantine VIII died,
leaving Romanos III as emperor.
The new emperor showed great eagerness to make his mark as a ruler, but was mostly unfortunate
in his enterprises. He spent large sums upon new buildings and in endowing the monks, and in his
endeavour to relieve the pressure of taxation disorganized the finances of the state.
Idealizing Marcus Aurelius, Romanos aspired to be a new "philosopher king", and similarly desired
to imitate the military prowess of Trajan.
In 1030 he resolved to retaliate upon the incursions of the Muslims on the eastern frontier by leading
a large army in person against Aleppo, but by allowing himself to be surprised on the march sustained
a serious defeat at Azaz near Antioch.
Though this disaster was retrieved by the capture and successful defence of Edessa by George
Maniakes in 1032 and by the defeat of a Saracen fleet in the Adriatic, Romanus never recovered his
popularity.
As a member of the aristocracy, Romanos III abandoned his predecessors' curtailment of the privileges
of the nobility and reduced their taxes, at the same time allowing peasant freeholders to fall into a
condition of serfdom. In a vain attempt to reduce expenditure, Romanos limited his wife's expenses,
which merely exacerbated the alienation between the spouses.
At home Romanos III faced several conspiracies, mostly centered around his sister-in-law Theodora,
as in 1029 and 1030.  Although he survived these attempts on the throne, his early death in 1034 was
supposed to have been due to poison administered by his wife, though it has also been alleged that he
was drowned in a bath on his wife's orders.
By his first wife Helena, Romanos III Argyros had a daughter:
(unnamed) Argyra, who was engaged
to Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.
By his second wife Zoe, Romanos III had no children.
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