Live auction - bby_879977 - CONSTANS II Solidus
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| Estimate : | 700 € |
| Price : | 810 € |
| Maximum bid : | 908 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 January 2024 15:47:55 |
| bidders : | 8 bidders |
Type : Solidus
Date: indiction 1
Date: 642-643
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie centrée des deux côtés, de forme ovale. Usure fine et régulière. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONS-T(AN)TINVS.
Obverse description : Buste imberbe, couronné de Constans II de face, vêtu de la chlamyde, tenant le globe crucigère de la main droite.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin) .
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AYGU AB/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix potencée posée sur trois degrés.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augusti nonum”, (Victoire de l’auguste, indiction 2).
Commentary
Solidus globulaire de la première série, de l’indiction 2 avec une type de buste 3B.
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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