v36_1177 - CONSTANS II Solidus
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 750.00 €
Realised price : 380.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: indiction 9
Date: 650/651
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,31 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais et un peu court sur les légendes. Usure superficielle. Patine de collection ancienne
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N C-ATN PP.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin perpétuel) .
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTO-RI A (THÊTA)/ -|P// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti nonum”, (Victoire de l’auguste an 9).
Commentary
Solidus globulaire. C’est le deuxième exemplaire signalé pour la neuvième indiction avec le petit P dans le champ à droite. De la plus grande rareté. Le seul exemplaire signalé appartient à la collection de l’American Numismatic Society (ANS. 45).
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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