TYPE Byzantine Empire, Constans II (641-668 AD), bronze follis, Constantinople mint, class 6, struck 655-7 AD.
DESCRIPTION .
Obv: Facing figure of Constans holding long cross and gl. cr., legend EN TOUTO NIKA (traces)
Rev: Denomination (M = 40 nummi), Greek legend [KON] - STAN to sides, officina E below, unc. regnal year in ex. (15 or 16)
REFERENCE: SB 1008, DO II 75-6
GRADING: F, red-green patina
ORDER INFO: B2758, $35
Stylistically unusual for the earlier Byzantine series in that the emperor's name appears on the reverse, here in one of the earliest uses of Greek on Byzantine coinage.