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bby_210864 - CONSTANS II Semissis

CONSTANS II Semissis MS
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Item sold on our e-shop (2009)
Price : 380.00 €
Type : Semissis
Date: 641-646
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,22 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4ème
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large et irrégulier. Portrait de style fin de toute beauté. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Münz Zentrum 128, 1-3 juin 2005, n° 650

Obverse


Obverse legend : DN CONSTAN-TINYS PP A.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constans perpétuel auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYS //CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur un globe.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La victoire des augustes).

Commentary


Style fin inhabituel. Rubans de type 3.

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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