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Rare JESUS CHRIST Class D Anonymous Ancient XI century Byzantine Follis Coin

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Description

Big Bronze Follis 13.4 grams
Byzantium, the time of Emperor Constantine IX (1042-1055).
Anonymous follis class D (25x30 mm., 13.4 grams).
Constantinople mint,
obverse
Christ seated facing on throne with back, wearing nimbus cruciger, pallium and colobium, and holding gospels with both hands, to left IC, to right XC;
reverse
IS XS / bASILE / bASIL (
Jesus Christ King of Kings
), lines and cross above, ornamental lines and crescent below.
Constantine IX Monomachos, Latinized as Constantine IX Monomachus (Medieval Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Θ΄ Μονομάχος, romanized: Kōnstantinos IX Monomachos; c. 1000 – 11 January 1055),
reigned as Byzantine emperor from 11 June 1042 to 11 January 1055. He had been chosen by the Empress Zoë as a husband and co-emperor in 1042, although he had been exiled for conspiring against her previous husband, Emperor Michael IV the Paphlagonian. They ruled together until Zoë died in 1050.
During Constantine's reign, the Byzantine Empire fought wars against groups which included the Kievan Rus' and the Seljuq Turks. In the year before his death, the split between the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches took place.