bby_951908 - CONSTANS II Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: c. 665-668
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 5,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan court, centré. Joli buste. Usure importante mais régulière. Patine verte et sable
Obverse
Obverse description : Constans II debout de face, couronné et cuirassé, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse legend : K.
Reverse
Reverse description : Grande M, surmontée des buste de Constantin IV, Héraclius et Tibère.
Commentary
Type de revers inhabituel.
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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