Live auction - bby_497612 - CONSTANS II Semissis
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| Estimate : | 450 € |
| Price : | 280 € |
| Maximum bid : | 300 € |
| End of the sale : | 31 July 2018 15:43:50 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Semissis
Date: c. 641-668
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,1 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés, faible de frappe sur la légende. beau buste de Constans II. Joli revers.
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DN CONSTA-TNYS PP A.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constans perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGYS //CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur un globe.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Style du portrait inhabituel. Rubans de type 3. R de Victoria rétrograde au revers.
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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