brm_608128 - CONSTANTIUS II Argenteus
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Price : 480.00 €
Type : Argenteus
Date: 357
Mint name / Town : Sirmium
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,98 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré. Marque de monture à 11h. Joli buste. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS/ XXX/ MVLTIS/ XXXX// SIRM.
Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne fermée.
Reverse translation : “Votis Tricennalibus/ Multis Quadracennalibus”, (Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le quarantième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Vu le poids, il semble bien s’agir d’un argenteus (silique) lourde frappée avant la réforme de 358. Trace d’une monture à 11 heures au droit.
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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