v29_0503 - CONSTANTIUS II Argenteus
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 303.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 510.00 €
Starting price : 195.00 €
Estimate : 300.00 €
Realised price : 303.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 510.00 €
Type : Argenteus
Date: 354-355
Mint name / Town : Bithynie, Nicomédie
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,95 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et complet des deux côtés, bien centré. Magnifique patine avec des reflets mordorés
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// SMN.
Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne fermée avec un astre à huit rais dans le cabochon.
Reverse translation : “Votis tricennalibus/ Multis quadracennalibus”, (Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le quarantième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3.
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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