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Home ▸ Catalog ▸ |Byzantine Coins| ▸ |Isaurian Dynasty| ▸ |Michael I||View Options:  |  |  | 

Michael I Rhangabe, 2 October 811 - 11 July 813 A.D.

Joint rule with Theophylactus, 25 December 811 - 11 July 813 A.D.
After Nicephorus I lost his life fighting in Bulgaria, the wounded and dying co-emperor Stauracius passed the Empire to his brother-in-law Michael. The new emperor called back some of Nicephorus' reforms and recognized the empire of Charlemagne. His regime was toppled when the Bulgar Kahn Krum defeated another Byzantine army.

Byzantine Empire, Michael I Rhangabe and Theophylactus, 25 December 811 - 11 July 813 A.D.

|Michael| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Michael| |I| |Rhangabe| |and| |Theophylactus,| |25| |December| |811| |-| |11| |July| |813| |A.D.||follis|
After Nicephorus I lost his life fighting in Bulgaria, the wounded and dying co-emperor Stauracius passed the Empire to his brother-in-law Michael. The new emperor called back some of Nicephorus' reforms and recognized the empire of Charlemagne. His regime was toppled when the Bulgar Kahn Krum defeated another Byzantine army.
BZ76934. Bronze follis, Anastasi 482; DOC III-1 10; Wroth BMC 12; Ratto 1793; Tolstoi 6; Sommer 28.4; SBCV 1625; Morrisson BnF p. 505, Type 2 (not in the collection), VF, nice dark green patina, crowded flan cutting off most of legend (as always for the type), earthen encrustations, weight 2.692 g, maximum diameter 18.1 mm, die axis 180o, Syracuse mint, 25 Aug 811 - 11 Jul 813 A.D.; obverse MIXA, facing bust of Michael I, wearing crown and loros, cross potent in right; reverse ΘEOΦV, facing bust of Theophylactus, wearing chlamys, globus cruciger in right; ex Forum (2009); scarce; SOLD


Byzantine Empire, Michael I Rhangabe and Theophylactus, 25 December 811 - 11 July 813 A.D.

|Michael| |I|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Michael| |I| |Rhangabe| |and| |Theophylactus,| |25| |December| |811| |-| |11| |July| |813| |A.D.||follis|
After Nicephorus I lost his life fighting in Bulgaria, the wounded and dying co-emperor Stauracius passed the Empire to his brother-in-law Michael. The new emperor called back some of Nicephorus' reforms and recognized the empire of Charlemagne. His regime was toppled when the Bulgar Kahn Krum defeated another Byzantine army.
BZ97800. Bronze follis, Anastasi 482; DOC III-1 10; Wroth BMC 12; Ratto 1793; Tolstoi 6; Sommer 28.4; SBCV 1625; Morrisson BnF p. 505, Type 2 (not in the collection), VF, nice green patina, light earthen deposits typical tight oval flan, weight 1.959 g, maximum diameter 18.9 mm, die axis 180o, Syracuse mint, 25 Aug 811 - 11 Jul 813 A.D.; obverse MIXA, facing bust of Michael I, wearing crown and loros, cross potent in right; reverse ΘEOΦV, facing bust of Theophylactus, wearing chlamys, globus cruciger in right; scarce; SOLD







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