Bertolami Fine Art
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Mezezius (668-669), Solidus, Syracuse, AD 668-669; AV (g 4,53; mm 19; h 6); dn MEZEZIyS PP AVy, curaissed bust facing, with beard and long moustache, wearing plume helmet and holding globe cruciger and shield, decorated with an horseman, Rv. VICTORIA AVgy E, cross potent on three steps; below, CONOB. DOC (Constantinus IV) 71; Sear 1146.
Extremely rare, few known specimens, good very fine.
Ex Triskelion Trust, London, cod. Byz01Msz.
Mezezius was one of the cospirators that, in the summer of AD 668, killed Constans II. After his death, the army proclamed the Armenian as emperor, choosing him among many rapresentatives of the byzantine nobility. Hir reign was brought to an end by the intervention of the exarch of Ravenna, who remained loyal to Constantinus IV of the Heraclian dynasty.
Extremely rare, few known specimens, good very fine.
Ex Triskelion Trust, London, cod. Byz01Msz.
Mezezius was one of the cospirators that, in the summer of AD 668, killed Constans II. After his death, the army proclamed the Armenian as emperor, choosing him among many rapresentatives of the byzantine nobility. Hir reign was brought to an end by the intervention of the exarch of Ravenna, who remained loyal to Constantinus IV of the Heraclian dynasty.