brm_829330 - CONSTANTINE III Silique

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Price : 900.00 €

Type : Silique

Date: 1/05/408 - fin 409

Date: 408-411

Mint name / Town : Trèves

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 15,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,27 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie sur un flan court, idéalement centré. Très beau buste de Constantin III. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

C.4 (20f.) - RIC.1533 - RSC.4 a (750£)

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 AAVGGG/ -|-// TRMS.

Reverse description : Rome nicéphore, casquée et drapée, assise à gauche sur une cuirasse stylisée et 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).

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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