v21_3710 - CONSTANTIUS II Argenteus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
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Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Argenteus
Date: 337-340
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique (Salonique)
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,30 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Revers de toute beauté avec une jolie patine foncée. Flan légèrement fendu à 12 heures au droit
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Monnaies et Médailles Deutschland, 21-22 octobre 1999, n° 500
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTANTI-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’b) ; diadème lauré et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA DD NN AVGG// TES.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et un trophée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Victoria Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum", ( la Victoire de nos seigneurs et augustes).
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS II
(8/11/324-3/11/361)
Augustus
Constantius II was born on August 7, 318 in Sirmium. He was raised to the cesarat on November 8, 324 at the age of six. He will reign 37 years, one of the longest reigns of the 4th century. After having crushed the revolt of Magnentius, he was alone august with a Caesar, Constance Galle, whom he had executed in 354. On November 6, 355, he elevated his cousin Julian to the title of Caesar. He went to Rome in 357, then to Sirmium, which he made his capital. Faced with the Sassanid danger, he left this region in 359 and settled in Antioch. Julien is proclaimed august in February 360. Constantius dies on November 3, 361, leaving Julien at the head of the Empire.
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