Live auction - brm_466488 - CONSTANTIUS II Solidus
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| Estimate : | 2 200 € |
| Price : | 2 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 400 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 March 2018 16:04:50 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Solidus
Date: 347-348
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : gold
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,49 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan parfaitement centré. Portrait de toute beauté. Revers fantastique finement détaillé. Magnifique patine avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de J.-B. Vigne et de la collection C. Oliva
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTI-VS AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'b) ; diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Iulius Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Flavien Jules Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIAE DD NN AVGG/ VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// TR.
Reverse description : Deux victoires debout face à face, tenant ensembles un bouclier sur le quel est inscrit une légende en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : “Victoriæ Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum// Votis vicennalibus Votis tricennalibus”, (À la Victoire de nos seigneurs augustes/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le trentième à venir).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Diadème composite formé de perles et de cabochons gemmés. Fibule d’attache sur le paludamentum. Ptéryges fines. Dans le trésor du Portugal, il y avait 8 exemplaires de ce type.
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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