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v21_3714 - CONSTANTIUS II Silique
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 209.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
Realised price : 209.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 330.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 358-360
Mint name / Town : Savie, Siscia (Sisak)
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 1,82 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement irrégulier avec un beau portrait. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS/XXX/ MVLTIS/ XXXX// SIS.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : “Votis tricennalibus/ Multis quadracennalibus”, (Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le quarantième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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