v09_0672 - CONSTANTIUS II Demi-maiorina
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
unsold lot
Type : Demi-maiorina
Date: 351
Mint name / Town : Pannonie supérieure ou Savie, Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,71 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Patine vert olive foncé. Flan légèrement irrégulier / Revers de joli style et d'un grand intérêt historique
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 : "Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - CAESARIS// DSIS.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant une couronne de la main droite.
Reverse translation : (La Victoire du césar).
Commentary
Pour une monnaie similaire de l'atelier de Sirmium, cf. MONNAIES VIII, n° 659.
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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