Live auction - bby_1031567 - CONSTANS II Solidus
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Live starting : Type : Solidus
Date: 651-654
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,49 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Magnifique buste de Constans II, finement détaillé. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.- - R.- - Do.- - BN/B.37 var. - BC.958 (325£) - SB.- - RGCMW.- - DMBR.12 /14N (1300€) - RBN. 1972/-
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 - AVGYS/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Variété rare introduite dans l’édition révisée du DMBR avec la barbe mi-longue. Ce type n’était signalé pour le moment que pour la cinquième officine. A. Sommer fait le lien entre ce solidi et les solidi de poids léger de 23 siliques (DMBR 12/ 31 et 32) présentant tous deux une barbe raccourcie, frappés en tre 651 et 654.
Rare variety introduced in the revised edition of the DMBR with a mid-length beard. This type was only reported for the fifth officina. A. Sommer links this solidi to the lightweight solidi of 23 siliquae (DMBR 12/31 and 32), both with a shortened beard, minted between 651 and 654.
Rare variety introduced in the revised edition of the DMBR with a mid-length beard. This type was only reported for the fifth officina. A. Sommer links this solidi to the lightweight solidi of 23 siliquae (DMBR 12/31 and 32), both with a shortened beard, minted between 651 and 654.
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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