Live auction - brm_520929 - CONSTANTIUS II Maiorina
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| Estimate : | 280 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 29 January 2019 15:20:42 |
Type : Maiorina
Date: 349
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,63 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté et revers vigoureux avec les détails les plus infimes parfaitement visibles. Patine grise aux reflets métalliques
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock CGB
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTA-NTIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance à droite, 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 et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP REPARATIO/ -|-// SMN.
Reverse description : L’empereur, tête nue, vêtu militairement debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant un labarum chrismé de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, deux captifs agenouillés face à face, tournés à gauche.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum Reparatio”, (Le retour des temps heureux).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines visibles des deux côtés. Globe décoré.
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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