Description
Flavius Heraclius, Byzantine Emperor and founder of the Heraclian Dynasty 610-641 AD, with Heraclius Constantine and Heraclonas, Gold Solidus (4.49g, 20mm), dated Indictional Year I (10), Constantinople mint 636/637 AD. Obverse: Full figures of Heraclonas, Heraclius, and Heraclius Constantine standing facing forward, each wearing crown and chlamys and holding globus cruciger in right hand. Reverse: Cross Potent set on three stairs, monogram to left field, indictional year “I” to right field, mintmark and purity “CONOB” in exergue, legend surrounds, “VICTORIA AVϚЧ Θ”. Doc-36b; Sear-761. Remarkably well engraved with individual obverse facial features, a most charming and lustrous piece, well centred and devoid of graffiti, very collectible as such, light die break on reverse, details Extremely Fine and near as struck.
The reverse Latin legend reads “Victōria Augustōrum” followed by the 9th officina letter “Θ”, with an English translation of “Victory of the Augusti”. The Latin in the exergue reads “Cōnstantīnopolis, obryzum”, with an English translation of “of the city of Constantinople, pure gold” – this had an implied meaning of “Minted in the city of Constantinople, 1/72 of a Roman Pound of pure gold”.
