v53_0614 - CONSTANS II Hexagramme
MONNAIES 53 (2012)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
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Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 400.00 €
Withdrawn
Type : Hexagramme
Date: c. 642-647
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,89 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait de Constans II. Joli revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine gris foncé de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TINYS P P AVI.
Obverse description : Buste barbu et couronné de Constans de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : DEYS ADIYTA ROMANIS.
Reverse description : Croix potencée sur un globe posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Deus Adiuta Romanis”, (Dieu à l'aide des romains).
Commentary
Ce type fut créé au moment ou Héraclius reprenait la ville de Jérusalem en 628.
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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