bby_210884 - CONSTANS II Tremissis
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 650.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 650.00 €
Type : Tremissis
Date: c. 646-648
Mint name / Town : Syracusa
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type ayant conservé son brillant d’origine et son coupant de frappe. Flan large et légèrement voilé, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers de style très fin
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Lanz 68, 6 juin 1994, n° 953
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TINYS P P (AV).
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et cuirassé de Constans II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constans perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGY(THÊTA)./ -|I// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans bouletés de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Magnifique fibule d’attache. Style du portrait inhabituel. D’après Philip Grierson, ce type est frappé entre 646 et 648 et comporte bien un point en fin de légende de revers.
Type 3 ball-ended ribbons. Magnificent clasp. Unusual portrait style. According to Philip Grierson, this type was struck between 646 and 648 and does indeed have a dot at the end of the reverse legend.
Type 3 ball-ended ribbons. Magnificent clasp. Unusual portrait style. According to Philip Grierson, this type was struck between 646 and 648 and does indeed have a dot at the end of the reverse legend.
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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