Live auction - brm_457292 - CONSTANTINE III Silique
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| Estimate : | 600 € |
| Price : | 410 € |
| Maximum bid : | 510 € |
| End of the sale : | 12 December 2017 14:48:02 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Silique
Date: 1/05/408 - fin 409
Date: 408-409
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,52 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Bel exemplaire homogène avec un joli buste et une agréable patine grise aux reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin III à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus” (Notre seigneur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AAAVGGG/ -|-// SMLD.
Reverse description : Rome nicéphore assise à gauche sur un siège, 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. Le diadème se termine par un bijou avec un cabochon rond. Les ptéryges sont visibles sous le paludamentum. Fibule d’attache sur l’épaule avec deux pendants. Au revers, une haste renversée. Rome est assise sur un siège ressemblant à une chaise curule.
Historical background
CONSTANTINE III
(407- summer 411)
Constantine III seizes power in England in 407 and goes to Gaul to try to stem the wave of barbarian invasions. Trèves 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. In 411, we have seven augusts: Honorius and Theodosius II, Constantine III and Constans, Maximus, Attalus and Jovin. Constantine III, after being betrayed by his Spanish general Gerontius is besieged by Constantius, taken prisoner, sent to Honorius and executed.
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