bby_558005 - CONSTANS II Solidus
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Price : 580.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 580.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 641-646
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,4 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait à l’usure superficielle avec une faiblesse de frappe sur une partie de la légende. Joli revers. Conserve une partie de son brillant de frappe
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB (bby_306793)
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TINYS P P AVI.
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 - AVGY(THÊTA)// CONOBS.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Sur notre exemplaire la lettre d’officine (thêta) est regravée sur une H (9/8).
On our example the office letter (theta) is re-engraved on an H (9/8)
On our example the office letter (theta) is re-engraved on an H (9/8)
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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