bby_266724 - CONSTANS II Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 350.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 350.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 641-646
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. A reçu un coup sur le visage et au revers sur la croix. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
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 - AVGYS/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Marque de démonétisation visible des deux côtés , coup oblitérant une partie du visage au droit et de la croix au revers. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages de référence. Manque aux principaux musées.
Demonetization mark visible on both sides, blow obliterating part of the face on the obverse and the cross on the reverse. This type seems much rarer than reference works suggest. Missing from major museums
Demonetization mark visible on both sides, blow obliterating part of the face on the obverse and the cross on the reverse. This type seems much rarer than reference works suggest. Missing from major museums
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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