brm_316046 - CONSTANTIUS II Silique
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 195.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 195.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 360-361
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,40 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés, fendu. Beau portrait de Constance II. Revers à l’usure régulière. Patine grise de collection ancienne avec des reflets bleutés
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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 : VOTIS/XXX / MVLTIS/ XXXX // LVG.
Reverse description : dans une couronne en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : "Votis tricennalibus Multis quadridecennalibus", (Vœux pour les trente années de règnes et plus pour les quarante années à venir).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines à peine visibles sous le paludamentum.
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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