Live auction - brm_371896 - CONSTANS Silique
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| Estimate : | 9 500 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 15 December 2015 14:47:33 |
Type : Silique
Date: 1/05/408 - fin 409
Date: 409-411
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,60 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, court sur les légendes. Beau portrait de Constantin III. Revers de style fin. Patine grise foncé avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'c) ; diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI- AAAVGGG/ -|-// SMTR.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore assise à gauche sur un siège avec dossier, tenant de la main droite un globe nicéphore et de la gauche une haste renversée.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Diadème composite, perlé et gemmé. Ce type de diadème semble non signalé. De la plus insigne rareté.
Historical background
CONSTANS
(409-411)
Constans is the son of Constantine III. His father took power in England in 407 and went to Gaul to try to stem the wave of barbarian invasions. Trier was taken on December 31, 406, and in 408 he conquered Spain. At the beginning of his reign, with four Gs on the reverse of the coins, he recognized four augusts: Arcadius, Honorius, Theodosius II and himself. The years 408-411 are among the darkest in the history of Gaul and the West. Constans, Caesar at the beginning of the reign was elevated to august between 409 and 410. In 411, we have seven augusts: Honorius and Theodosius II, Constantin III and Constans, Maxime, Attalus and Jovin. Finally betrayed by Gerontius, Constans was besieged in early 411 in Vienna, which finally fell. Constans is executed like his father in Arles in September 411.
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