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v34_1093 - CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus

CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus MS
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 450.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 654-659
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1.000 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,4,45 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 7e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan très légèrement décentré au droit sur la légende. Portraits de toute beauté. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente de B. Poindessault du 2 juillet 2004, n° 195

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTINYS E CONSTANTI.
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 Constanti...”, (Nos seigneurs Constantin et Constanti...).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYZ// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti”, (Victoire de l’auguste).

Commentary


Lettre d’officine (Z) rétrograde au revers. Petit buste enfantin de Constantin IV. Minuscule graffiti dans le champ gauche du revers en forme de A capitale.

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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