Description: | Constans II, AV Solidus 20mm, 4.42 g. Syracuse mint. Struck 659-661 AD. DN CONSTANTINUS CONSTANIU (or similar), Facing busts of Constans, with long beard, and Constantine, beardless, each crowned, draped and cuirassed, cross between their heads / VICTORIA AVGU and two dots, cross potent on four steps between the facing, standing figures of Heraclius and Tiberius, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding cross on globe, globus cruciger, mintmark CONOB. DOC 161e, MIB 94, Anastasi 161, SB 1085. |