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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;arnoldoe, post: 2489020, member: 72712&quot;]New coin arrived Today,</p><p>A Constans II Hexagram, </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]526486[/ATTACH] <b>Constans II, with Constantine IV, Heraclius, and Tiberius, 641-668. </b>Hexagram (Silver, 23mm, 6.66 g 7h), Constantinople, 659-668. Draped facing busts of Constans II, wearing plumed helmet, and Constantine IV, wearing crown; above, cross <i>Rev.</i> dEЧ [S ADIЧTA ROmANIS] ( May God help the Romans) Cross potent set on globe above three steps; crowned and draped figures of Heraclius and Tiberius standing facing to either side, each holding globus cruciger. DOC 57. MIB 152. SB 998. </p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The Hexagram got its name from it&#039;s weight of&nbsp; Six Gramatta they were supposedly valued at 1/12th a Solidus and were first struck around 615 by Heraclius who...</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>&quot;Having taken the money of the holy churches in the form of a loan, pressed by difficulties, he [Heraclius] seized the polykandéla of the great church as well as other servicable equipment and coined large numbers of nomismata and miliarisia&quot;</i></p><p><i></i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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