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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Heraclean Dynasty| > |Constans II| > BZ69718
Byzantine Empire, Constans II, September 641 - 15 July 668 A.D.
|Constans| |II|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Constans| |II,| |September| |641| |-| |15| |July| |668| |A.D.|, In 647, the first Muslim invasion of the Exarchate of Carthage was led by Abdallah ibn Sa'ad of the Rashidun Caliphate. Muslims defeated and killed the local Byzantine governor Gregory the Patrician at the Battle of Sufetula. The city, however, remained secure.
BZ69718. Bronze half follis, DOC II-2 138.5; Wroth BMC 312; Tolstoi 205; Ratto 1568; Morrisson BnF 16; Hahn MIB 196a; SBCV 1057, aVF, Carthage (near Tunis, Tunisia) mint, weight 3.684g, maximum diameter 20.3mm, die axis 225o, 643 - 647 A.D.; obverse CONSTANTINVS PP AV (AV ligate), beardless bust of Constans II facing, wearing chlamys and crown with cross on circlet, globus cruciger in right; reverse mark of value X X with large cross between, CRTG in exergue; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; SOLD










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