brm_480122 - CONSTANTIUS II Solidus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 1 400.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 1 400.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 340-351
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire sur un flan large. Beau buste et joli revers
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection AJRR et d’une electronic auction de CNG
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 Iulius Constantius Perpetuus Augustus”, (Flavien Jules Constance perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA - REI - PVBLICAE/ VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// -|- CONS.
Reverse description : Rome et Constantinople assises de face sur une banquette, tenant ensemble un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Reipublicæ/ Votis vicennalibus/ Multis tricennalibus”, (La gloire du bien public/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour les trente 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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