brm_978661 - CONSTANTIUS II Solidus
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Price : 3 500.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 337-347
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,10 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste, légèrement stylisé. Superbe revers, bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection
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Obverse
Obverse legend : FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS PERP AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Julius Constantius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Flavien Jules Constance pertpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICITAS ROMANORVM / VOTIS / XV / MVLTIS/ XX // SMANS.
Reverse description : Légende en trois lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Romanorum, Votis Quindecennalia/ Multis Vicennalia”, (La Félicité des Romains, Vœux pour le quinzième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le vingtième anniversaire à venir),.
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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