| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Showcase Auction 61386 | Auction date: 21 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 24179 Price realized: 600 USD (Approx. 563 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Ancients Romanus III Argyrus (AD 1028-1034). AV histamenon nomisma (24mm, 4.27 gm, 6h). NGC Choice VF 5/5 - 2/5, marks, brushed, wavy flan. Constantinople. +IhS XIS RЄX-RЄSNANTInm, Christ enthroned facing, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, right hand raised in benediction, book of Gospels in left; double border / ΘCЄ bOHΘ'-RwmAhw, standing facing figures of Romanus III (on left), bearded, wearing crown with pendilia, saccos and loros, four pellets on sleeve, globus cruciger in left hand, and the Virgin (on right), nimbate, wearing pallium and maphorium, crowning emperor with right hand; decorative element over MΘ in central field between their heads, double border. Sear 1819. Romanus III Argyrus was the only member of the Argyroi aristocratic family to gain a political office. He was also second Byzantine emperor to be assassinated while in the bath. The first was Constans II, who was hit on the head with a bucket by his chamberlain in 668. Romanus was drowned by several assassins, who, according to the contemporary Chronicle of John Skylitzes, "were washing him and held his head a bit too long under the water." The assassins were probably sent by his wife, the empress Zoe Porphyrogenita. She married the new emperor Michael IV the following day. There is a striking illustration of Romanus' murder in an illuminated manuscript of Skylitzes' Chronicle, which was illustrated in the 13th century and currently resides in the Biblioteca Nacional de España in Madrid. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/byzantine/ancients-romanus-iii-argyrus-ad-1028-1034-av-histamenon-nomisma-24mm-427-gm-6h-ngc-choice-vf-5-5-2-5-mark/a/61386-24179.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-61386-04212024 HID02906262019 © 2024 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved |  |
