bby_548627 - CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus
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Price : 420.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 654-659
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré des deux côtés. Beaux bustes avec une trace de double frappe sur la légende à droite et le buste de Constantin IV. Joli revers de style fin
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du trésor d’Apamée sur l’Oronte, n° 77 et de TRESORS II, n° 214
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTINYS E CONSTAI.
Obverse description : Bustes couronnés de face de Constans II et de Constantin IV, vêtus de la chlamyde ; croisette au milieu ; Constans II porte la barbe longue ; Constantin IV est petit et imberbe.
Obverse translation : “Domini Nostri Constantinus et Constans...”, (Nos seigneurs Constantin et Constans...).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYB// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).
Commentary
Trace de double frappe au droit, visible sur le portrait de Constantin IV et la légende. R de VICTORIA rétrograde.
Historical background
CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV
(04/13/654-07/15/668)
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 right 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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