bby_361208 - CONSTANS II Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 651-654
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,36 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et bien centré. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin avec une usure superficielle sur les légendes. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
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 - AVGY(DELTA)// CONOB+.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent paraître les ouvrages de référence.
Seems much rarer than reference works suggest
Seems 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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