v45_0886 - CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus

CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Solidus AU

MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 420.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Solidus

Date: 654-659

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 20 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 4,43 g.

Rarity : R1

Officine: 2e

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier avec une petite faiblesse de frappe sur les légendes en bordure de flan. Beaux portraits avec un tout petit buste de Constantin IV. Joli revers. Conserve son brillant de frappe

Catalogue references :

BMC/B.40 - R.- - Do.25 b - BN/B.- - BC.959 (225£)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTINYS C CONSTAN.

Obverse description : Bustes couronnés de face de Constans II et de Constantin IV, vêtus de la chlamyde ; croisette au milieu.

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 Augustorum”, (La victoire des augustes).

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.

CONSTANS II and CONSTANTINE IV Follis VF

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