v31_0715 - CONSTANS II Demi-follis
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-follis
Date: 648-658
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 9 h.
Weight : 5,76 g.
Rarity : R1
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais, court sur la légende. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers bien venu à la frappe et de haut relief. Patine vert foncé au droit et vert clair au revers, légèrement granuleuse
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONS-TAN-TIN P.
Obverse description : Buste couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant de la main droite la mappa et un globe crucigère de la main gauche.
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Constans perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : C|T/ X|X.
Reverse description : Croix surmontée d’une étoile à six rais et accostée de deux deux points.
Commentary
Poids lourd. Trace de surfrappe peut-être sur un demi-follis du premier (BC. 1056) ou du deuxième type (BC. 1057). Croix longue et fichée.
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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