MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 200.00 €
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
Realised price : 200.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 200.00 €
Type : Maiorina, (MB, Æ 2)
Date: 348-350
Mint name / Town : Europe, Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 5,09 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Revers de toute beauté servi par une magnifique patine vert olive lissée
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un globe de la main droite (A'6a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP - REPARATIO/ *|-// MHA.
Reverse description : L'empereur, tête nue, vêtu militairement debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant un labarum croiseté de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, deux captifs agenouillés face à face, tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum Reparatio”, (Le retour des temps heureux).
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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