v45_0884 - CONSTANS II Solidus
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 606.00 €
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 606.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 651-654
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré. Beau portrait avec une rayure dans le champ à droite. Joli revers de style fin avec une usure superficielle
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.- - R.- - Do.- cf. 21 - BN/B.- - BC.958 (325£) - SB.- - RGCMW.- - RN. 2002/549 (1 ex.) - RBN. 1972/413 (2 ex.)
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d’Apamée sur l’Oronte, n° 69, TRESORS II, n°206 où il s’est vendu 526€ avec trois offres sur un maximum à 800€
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 - AVGYI// CONOB+.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Graffiti dans le champ du revers. Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages de référence.
Lightweight. Graffiti in the reverse field. Appears much rarer than reference works suggest.
Lightweight. Graffiti in the reverse field. Appears much rarer than reference works suggest.
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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