v08_0660 - CONSTANTIUS II Demi-maiorina
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 53.36 €
Estimate : 83.85 €
Realised price : 53.36 €
Starting price : 53.36 €
Estimate : 83.85 €
Realised price : 53.36 €
Type : Demi-maiorina
Date: 355
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,90 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Flan large et complet. Magnifique patine vert olive clair / Frappe un peu molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES REI - PVBLICAE// SMTS.
Reverse description : L'empereur casqué, vêtu militairement, debout à gauche, tenant un globe de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : (L'Espérance de la République).
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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