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v23_0657 - ANTHEMIUS Tremissis

ANTHEMIUS Tremissis VF
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 1 500.00 €
Estimate : 2 500.00 €
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Type : Tremissis
Date: 467-472
Mint name / Town : atelier incertain, Illyrie ?
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de style très particulier. Portrait légèrement fruste. Exemplaire à l’usure importante, mais parfaitement identifiable
Predigree :
Ce type provient d’une vieille collection

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N ANTHMIVS VG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d’Anthème Ier à droite, vue de trois quarts en avant (A’a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Anthemius Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Anthème auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE// COHOB À L’EXERGUE.
Reverse description : Croix dans une couronne.

Commentary


Pour ce type, G. Depeyrot a répertorié quatorze exemplaires. J. P. C. Kent signale cinq exemplaires dans les grandes collections : Londres, Copenhague, Leyde, Paris et Vienne.

Historical background


ANTHEMIUS

(03/25/467-06/30/472)

Anthème is a descendant of Procope and the husband of Euphemia, daughter of Marcien. Following brilliant military successes against the Goths and the Huns, Leo I appointed him Emperor of the West after the death of Severus III. Ricimer, the master of Italy and of the destinies of the West, marries the daughter of Anthème. But Anthème, not very popular because of his Greek origins, clashes with the Romans and alienates Ricimer, who ends up having him assassinated..

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