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Live auction - bby_765166 - CONSTANS II Solidus

CONSTANS II Solidus AU
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Estimate : 800 €
Price : 1 800 €
Maximum bid : 2 000 €
End of the sale : 06 September 2022 15:41:10
bidders : 6 bidders
Type : Solidus
Date: indiction 12
Date: 653/654
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 12 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
BMC/B.-  - R.-  - Do.116 /3 - BN/B.-  - BC.1037 (400£)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N COI-CTANT.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus ”, (Notre seigneur Constantin).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTO-RI G IB// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti duodecimum”, (Victoire de l’auguste an 12).

Commentary

Solidus globulaire. Variété avec la barbe longue.

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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