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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Byzantine Coins| > |Heraclean Dynasty| > |Constantine IV| > BZ93532
Byzantine Empire, Constantine IV, 15 July 668 - 10 July 685 A.D.
|Constantine| |IV|, |Byzantine| |Empire,| |Constantine| |IV,| |15| |July| |668| |-| |10| |July| |685| |A.D.|, Constantine IV Pogonatus should be credited with saving Europe from Muslim conquest. The great siege of Constantinople by the caliph Muawiyah I, beginning in 674, lasted four years. In 678, the Byzantines finally broke the siege when they destroyed the Arab fleet using a new incendiary liquid known as Greek fire, and then defeated the Arab army on land. Constantinople would not fall to the Muslims until 29 May 1453.
BZ93532. Bronze follis, Anastasi 249; DOC II-2 63; SBCV 1210; Hahn MIB 3 107; Sommer 13.31; Wroth BMC 72; Tolstoi 129; Morrison BnF p. 390, Type 4 (not in the collection), aVF, obv. well centered, scratches, reverse off center, edge ragged, overstruck, Sicily, Syracuse mint, weight 5.968g, maximum diameter 21.8mm, die axis 180o, c. 681 - 682 A.D.; obverse diademed, helmeted, and cuirassed bust facing, short beard, helmet with plum, spear in right hand over right shoulder, shield on left arm ornamented with horseman, no legend; reverse large M (40 nummi), monogram (Kwt = Kwnstantine) above, SCL in exergue; from the Errett Bishop Collection; scarce; SOLD




  






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