v11_0498 - CONSTANTIUS GALLUS Maiorina
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina
Date: 353-354
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,46 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Patine vert olive foncé. Petites faiblesses de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTIVS IVN NOB C .
Obverse description : Buste tête nue, drapé et cuirassé de Constance Galle à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A°).
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Constantius Junior Nobilissimus Cæsar", (Notre seigneur Constance le jeune très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP - REPARATIO/ E|-// SMTS.
Reverse description : Soldat casqué, vêtu militairement, tenant un bouclier sur le bras gauche et une haste de la main droite terrassant un cavalier tombé au sol couché sur son cheval qui est tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : "Felicitas Temporum Reparatio", (Le retour des temps heureux).
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS GALLUS
(3/15/351-winter 354)
Caesar
Constance Galle was named Caesar on March 15, 351 to respond to the usurpation of Magnentius. He marries Constantia, Constance II's sister, and is sent to the East to stabilize the situation against the threatening Sassanids. Installed in Antioch, he is brutal and intransigent. Faced with the fear of a revolt from the East, Constantius called him back, had him arrested in Illyria and beheaded at the end of the year 354.
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