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bby_210861 - CONSTANS II Solidus

CONSTANS II Solidus AU
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Item sold on our e-shop (2012)
Price : 495.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 651-654
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et légèrement irrégulier avec une faiblesse de frappe périphérique en bordure de légende. Très beau portrait. Revers de style fin. A conservé la plus grande partie de son brillant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Argenor du 25 avril 2002, n° 180

Obverse


Obverse legend : DN CONSTAN-TINYS PP AV.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin perpétuel auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYZ// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).

Commentary


Lettre d’officine (Z) inversée qui semble regravée sur une autre lettre, non discernable.

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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