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BYZANTINE COINS.
HERACLIUS CONSTANTINE, AD 641. Solidus, Constantinople, 11 January - 20 April 641. AV 4.51 g. Heraclius, bearded, standing facing between his sons Heraclius Constantine and Heraclonas, each wearing chlamys and crown with crosslet, holding globe cruciger in the r. hand. Rev. VICTORIA - AVGy I / CONOB Cross potent on three steps, in field l., monogram, r. K. DO 263, 45 var. (officina I missing); MIB III, 216, 52; Sear 771.
Very rare. Good extremely fine
Provenance:
K. Müller collection.
Auction F. Sternberg, Zurich XXI (1988), 564.
Auction Hess-Divo AG, Zurich 283 (2000), 187.
Auction UBS, Zurich 63 (2005), 498.
Hahn, MIB III, 86-87 has convincingly argued that the very rare issue with the letter K on the rev. belongs to the very short reign of Heraclius Constantine as senior augustus (with his younger brother Heraclonas as co-emperor) after the death of his father Heraclius in early AD 641.
HERACLIUS CONSTANTINE, AD 641. Solidus, Constantinople, 11 January - 20 April 641. AV 4.51 g. Heraclius, bearded, standing facing between his sons Heraclius Constantine and Heraclonas, each wearing chlamys and crown with crosslet, holding globe cruciger in the r. hand. Rev. VICTORIA - AVGy I / CONOB Cross potent on three steps, in field l., monogram, r. K. DO 263, 45 var. (officina I missing); MIB III, 216, 52; Sear 771.
Very rare. Good extremely fine
Provenance:
K. Müller collection.
Auction F. Sternberg, Zurich XXI (1988), 564.
Auction Hess-Divo AG, Zurich 283 (2000), 187.
Auction UBS, Zurich 63 (2005), 498.
Hahn, MIB III, 86-87 has convincingly argued that the very rare issue with the letter K on the rev. belongs to the very short reign of Heraclius Constantine as senior augustus (with his younger brother Heraclonas as co-emperor) after the death of his father Heraclius in early AD 641.