CHRIST / BYZANTINE / Nicephorus III Botaniates Æ Follis Coin 1078-81AD GGcoins

Description

“BYZANTINE EMPIRE”
Nicephorus III, Botaniates
Reign; 1078-81 AD.
Constantinople Mint;  1078-1081AD.
Bronze AE Follis:
Size (24mm.)  Weight: (5.54gm.)
Description:
Obverse:  Christ f
acing, wearing nimbus cruciger,
pallium and colobium, raising right in benediction;
gospels in left hand, IC - XC
(Jesus Christ)
in fields...
Reverse:
Latin cross with X center, globe & two dots
at each extremity, floral ornaments in lower fields,
crescents in
upper fields ...
Ref:  SBCV 1889  Class 1
Personalized COA included
The Coin:
A very pleasing, 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:
Nicephorus III Botaneiates,
(born c. 1001—died c. 1081), Byzantine emperor (1078–81) whose use of Turkish support
in acquiring and holding the throne tightened the grip of the Seljuq Turks on Anatolia.
Nicephorus,
who belonged to the military aristocracy of Asia Minor and who was related to the powerful
Phocas family, became commander of the Anatolian theme (administrative district).
When discontent against the government of Michael VII Ducas led to rioting in Constantinople, Nicephorus
was proclaimed emperor (January 7, 1078) by his supporters there.
With some support from Suleiman, the Seljuq ruler in Anatolia, Nicephorus was acclaimed emperor by
his troops at Nicaea (in northwestern Anatolia) and entered Constantinople three months later.
His imperial claim was ratified by the aristocracy and clergy, who had already deposed Michael VII.
Nicephorus III defeated a rival claimant to the throne, Nicephorus Bryennius, the empire’s commander in
Albania; he also defeated a later pretender, Nicephorus Basilacius, who succeeded Bryennius in Albania.
After the death of Nicephorus’s wife, he married Mary, the wife of the deposed but still living Michael VII,
naming Michael’s son Constantine as his successor but then later deciding on one of his own nephews
instead.    He relegated Constantine’s fiancée, a daughter of the Norman leader Robert Guiscard, to a
convent. Nicephorus’s action provided an excuse for Guiscard’s later successful attacks against the empire.
In 1080 another usurper, Nicephorus Melissenus, appeared in Asia Minor and also sought Turkish
assistance.
As a result of such constant internal strife, with one faction or another requesting aid from the Turks,
most of Asia Minor was lost to Byzantium and became incorporated in the Seljuq sultanate of Rūm,
centred on Iconium (modern Konya, Turkey). A rebellion led by Alexius I Comnenus successfully captured
Constantinople, forcing Nicephorus to abdicate on April 4, 1081. He entered the Peribleptos Monastery
in Constantinople, which he had restored.
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