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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24822884, member: 26430&quot;]Very interesting writeup, thanks for sharing! Salm ibn Ziyad seems to have been lucky not to suffer the usual fate of rulers who lost medieval power struggles.</p><p><br /></p><p>I only have one presentable contemporary coin: AV Solidus of Constantine IV, who was the Byzantine Emperor, 668-685 CE.</p><p><br /></p><p>My knowledge of Islamic / Arab history is minimal, but at one point, as I understand it, at one point (c. 669) Constantine IV was at war with the future Caliph <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_I" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yazid_I" rel="nofollow">Yazid I</a> (r. 680–683) mentioned above (but who was probably not involved in the great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Constantinople_(674%E2%80%93678)" rel="nofollow">Siege of Constantinople, 674-678</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>[Do I have that right?]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also a ruler who died of exceptionally natural, peaceful causes, despite living in a time of war.</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/constantine-iv-solidus-by-suarez-photo-jpg.1576310/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p><font size="4"><b>Byzantine / Eastern Roman Empire. Constantine IV Pogonatus (668-685), with Heraclius and Tiberius AV Solidus </b>(4.37g, 19mm, 6h), Constantinople mint, 10th officina, <i>circa</i> 674-681. </font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Obverse:</b>&nbsp; D N CO(●TN)-A-NЧS PP [or similarly devolved]. Pearl-diademed, cuirassed bust facing three-quarters right, with short beard, wearing helmet with frontal plume only, holding a spear over shoulder and shield decorated with horseman motif.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Reverse:</b> (VICTOA) AVGЧ I / CONOB. Cross potent set on three steps between facing, standing figures of Heraclius and Tiberius, each crowned, draped in chlamys, and holding globus cruciger.</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>References</b>: DOC 8e; MIB 7a; SB 1154.</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Published</b>: ERIC II 64 p. 1319, 5 (obv) and 8 (rev), and front cover (<i>this coin illustrated</i>).</font></p><p><font size="4"><b>See also:</b> <a href="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/179.php" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tantaluscoins.com/coins/179.php" rel="nofollow">Tantalus 179</a> = Coryssa / COINVAC <a href="https://www.coryssa.org/1044946/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coryssa.org/1044946/" rel="nofollow">ID #1044946</a> (<i>this coin</i>) = Dirtyoldcoins <a href="http://dirtyoldbooks.com/gandinga/id/c4.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://dirtyoldbooks.com/gandinga/id/c4.htm" rel="nofollow">Byzantine Database / ID Page SB 1154/DOC II 8</a> (<i>this example illustrated</i>) </font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Provenance</b>: Ex CNG EA 484 (27 Jan 2021), Lot 978; </font></p><p><font size="4">Ex-Rasiel Suarez Collection/Dirty Old Coins LLC (reportedly <a href="https://www.coryssa.org/1044946/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.coryssa.org/1044946/" rel="nofollow">acquired on ebay, 28 March 2005</a>).</font></p><p><font size="4"><br /></font></p><p><font size="4"><b>Notes:</b> AU 98.52% by XRF. Accompanied by numbered (1495) &amp; signed copy of <i>The Encyclopedia of Roman Imperial Coins</i> (R. Suarez, 2nd edition, 2010), and Certificate of Authenticity from Rasiel Suarez (no. 651) with detailed XRF Analysis Report.</font></p></blockquote><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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