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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 45.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: c. 641-652
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,46 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan quadrangulaire à l’usure très importante, mais identifiable. Patine noire
Obverse
Obverse description : Constans II debout de face, couronné et cuirassé, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse legend : [EN TwTO NIKA].
Obverse translation : (Par ce signe tu vaincras).
Reverse
Reverse legend : [A/N/A - N/E/O/S//] .
Reverse description : Grande m, surmontée d’une croisette.
Commentary
Follis identifiable.
Historical background
CONSTANS II
(09/641-15/07/668)
Constans II, born in 630, was the son of Heraclius Constantine and the grandson of Heraclius. He was associated with power from September 641 and the beginning of his reign saw the final loss of Egypt to Islam. Constans, in the years 650-54, had to face numerous seditions and revolts, particularly in North Africa. In 654, his son Constantine IV became august. From 659, Heraclius and Tiberius are associated with power and, on coins, they appear on the reverse. It is Constantin, the eldest son of Constans who is always represented on the obverse next to his father. At the end of his reign, Constantine IV abandoned Constantinople to finally settle in Syracuse. This is where he was assassinated in 668.
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