Byzanz: Constans II.

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Events

Created

When	647-651 CE
Where	Constantinople

Commissioned

Who	Constans II (630-668)

Owned

Who	Heinrich Wefels (-1931)
When	1916-1931

Was depicted (Actor)

Who	Constans II (630-668)

Relation to places

Eastern Europe

Keywords

Christliche Ikonographie Coin Early Middle Ages Early Middle Ages Emperor Hexagram Middle Ages Portrait Silver

Description

Front: Drapierte Panzerbüste des Constans II. mit Krone, darauf Kreuz, und Globus (sphaira) mit Kreuz in der Vorderansicht.
Rear: Kreuz auf Globus und dreistufiger Basis.

Inscription

Vorderseite: [d N CON]StAN-tINЧS PP AV (Dominus Noster Constantinus Perpetuus Augustus)
Rückseite: dEЧS AdIЧtA ROMANIS (Deus Adiuta Romanis)

Material/Technique

Silver; struck

Measurements

Diameter: 20-24 mm
Weight: 4.97 g

Literature

Ph. Grierson, Catalogue of the Byzantine coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and in the Whittemore Collection II-2 (1968) 438 Nr. 50.
W. Hahn, Moneta Imperii Byzantini III (1981) 247 Nr. 144.