bby_790766 - CONSTANS II Decanummium
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Type : Decanummium
Date: indiction10
Date: 651-652
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et centré. Très beau buste fin et détaillé de l’empereur au droit. Patine sombre
Obverse
Obverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Constans II, la barbe longue de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite .
Reverse
Reverse legend : A/N-N/O/I.
Reverse description : Grand I accosté de lettres.
Commentary
Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la deuxième fois que nous présentons un exemplaire à la vente.
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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