Byzanz: Constans II.

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Events

Created

When	641-668 CE
Where	Constantinople

Commissioned

Who	Constans II (630-668)

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Constans II (630-668)

Relation to places

Eastern Europe

Keywords

Christliche Ikonographie Coin Early Middle Ages Early Middle Ages Empress Gegenstempel, Erasionen u.a Hexagram Middle Ages Portrait Silver

Description

Front: Drapierte Panzerbüste des Constans II. mit Krone und Globus (sphaira), darauf Kreuz, in der Vorderansicht.
Rear: Kreuz auf Globus und dreistufiger Basis.
Overstruck: A coin or medal used as a flan to produce a new coin and that has been struck with a new die.

Inscription

Vorderseite: d N CONStAN-tINUS PP AVC (Dominus Noster Cosntantinus Perpetuus Augustus)
Rückseite: dEUS AdIUtA ROMANIS (Deus Adiuta Romanis)

Similar objects

NMA I: 1448

MIB III Constans II.: 142

Material/Technique

Silver; struck

Measurements

Diameter: 25 mm
Weight: 6.77 g

Literature

B. Kluge, Numismatik des Mittelalters (2007) Nr. 1448 (dieses Stück).
D. R. Sear, Byzantine coins and their values ²(1987) 207 Nr. 988.
Ph. Grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection II-2 (1968) 396 Nr. 4 (unter Heraclonas).
W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini III (1981) Nr. 142.