bby_210832 - HERACLIUS Solidus
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Price : 780.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 610-611
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan large bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait bien venu à la frappe et de haut relief. Revers de style fin. Conserve encore une partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provien de la vente Bourgey du 24 novembre 1995, n° 65
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HERALI-VS PP AG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, couronné et cuirassé d'Héraclius de face, barbu, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite avec pendilia.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Heraclius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Héraclius perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYI// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (la Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Exemplaire de très joli style. Les pendilia sont directement suspendues à la couronne. Trace de début de cassure de coin au revers au niveau de la croix et dans le champ à gauche. C’est la première émission de solidi pour Héraclius qui se caractérise par seulement deux (trois) degrés sous la croix.
A very beautiful example. The pendilia are directly suspended from the crown. Traces of the beginning of a die break on the reverse at the level of the cross and in the left field. This is the first solidi issue for Heraclius, characterized by only two (three) degrees below the cross.
A very beautiful example. The pendilia are directly suspended from the crown. Traces of the beginning of a die break on the reverse at the level of the cross and in the left field. This is the first solidi issue for Heraclius, characterized by only two (three) degrees below the cross.
Historical background
HERACLIUS
(5/10/610-11/01/641)
Heraclius alone
Heraclius had been prefect of Africa since the reign of Maurice-Tibère. With his son, also named Heraclius, he revolted against the tyranny of Phocas. The sedition broke out in the summer of 608 and quickly the Heracliids controlled Carthage and Alexandria as well as Cyprus. On October 4, 610, Heraclius landed in Constantinople, overthrew Phocas and had him put to death. The reign of Heraclius began badly. The Sassanids occupied Asia Minor and in particular Jerusalem. From 622, Heraclius resumed the offensive and Jerusalem became Christian again in 628. Heraclius recovered the true cross, symbol of the new type of solidus. He married Martine, his niece, in second marriage. She was the mother of Heraclonas, born in 626, created Caesar in 630, associated with the throne in 638. After the death of Heraclius, on January 11, 641, Heraclius Constantine in turn disappeared on April 20, 641. This is the son of Martine, Heraclonas, who ascended the throne. As early as September, Heraclonas was obliged to crown his nephew Constans as co-emperor. He was deposed in October, mutilated and exiled with his mother to Rhodes.
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