bby_427428 - CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 950.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 950.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 654-659
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,34 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré, un peu court sur la légende de droit. Portraits magnifiques au droit. Revers de haut relief. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Gadoury du 2 octobre 2012
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTINYS E CONSTANI.
Obverse description : Bustes couronnés de face de Constans II et de C
onstantin IV, vêtus de la chlamyde ; croisette au milieu ; Constans II porte la barbe longue ; Constantin IV est petit et imberbe.
Obverse translation : “Domini Nostri Constantinus et Constans...”, (Nos seigneurs Constantin et Constans...).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYS/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Le portrait de Constantin IV semble plus mature sur cet exemplaire.
The portrait of Constantine IV appears more mature in this example.
The portrait of Constantine IV appears more mature in this example.
Historical background
CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV
(04/13/654-07/15/668)
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 right 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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