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| Estimate : | 350 € |
| Price : | 46 € |
| Maximum bid : | 51 € |
| End of the sale : | 02 March 2015 16:09:00 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Demi-follis
Date: 643-647
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 5,89 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, légèrement décentré au droit. Beau portrait inhabituel de Constans II. Revers oblitéré. Patine marron superficielle. A été nettoyé anciennement
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONS-TANTINVS PP AV.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant de la main droite la mappa et de la main gauche, un globe crucigère.
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Constans perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CRTS À L'EXERGUE.
Reverse description : XX, surmonté d’une croisette entre une étoile et un E.
Commentary
Poids lourd. Exemplaire surfrappé (traces très importantes des deux côtés). Hybride associant un droit du type suivant avec le type normal de revers.
Heavyweight. Overstruck example (very heavy marks on both sides). Hybrid combining a right of the following type with the normal type of reverse.
Heavyweight. Overstruck example (very heavy marks on both sides). Hybrid combining a right of the following type with the normal type of reverse.
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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