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Live auction - bby_481390 - CONSTANS II Solidus

CONSTANS II Solidus AU
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Estimate : 950 €
Price : 480 €
Maximum bid : 500 €
End of the sale : 05 June 2018 15:11:11
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Solidus
Date: indiction 1
Date: 642-643
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan globulaire, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau buste de Constans II. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection P.-R. B

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N CONS-TANTINO P.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe, couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin perpétuel) .

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AYGU (DELTA)A/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti nonum”, (Victoire de l’auguste an 9).

Commentary


Solidus globulaire de la première série, de l’indiction 1 avec une type de buste 1A. Un seul exemplaire recensé dans le trésor de Rougga III n° 224, pl. XI avec ce type de portrait. Nous distinguons mal la dernière lettre de la légende de revers, alpha ou lambda. Dans l’inventaire du trésor de Rougga, un seul exemplaire avec l’alpha et cinq avec le lambda.

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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