Live auction - brm_966300 - EUGENIUS Silique
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Live starting : Type : Silique
Date: 392-394
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan très légèrement décentré au revers. Buste finement détaillé. Joli revers. Patine grise de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N EVGENI-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d'Eugène à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Eugenius Pius Felix Augustus" (Notre seigneur Eugène pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS RO-MANORVM/ -|-// TRPS.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Romanorum” (La virilité des romains).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.
Historical background
EUGENIUS
(22/08/392-6/09/394)
Valentinian II was assassinated on May 15, 392 at the instigation of Arbogast, the real holder of power in the West. The Western empire remains vacant for three months. Eugene, master of offices, was proclaimed august on August 22, 392 by Arbogast. Professor of rhetoric, he is the antithesis of the barbarian general, the true master of the West. The nomination of Eugene is the occasion of the ultimate pagan reaction in the Roman circles of Urbs. Theodosius refuses to recognize Eugene, finally defeated at the Battle of the Cold River. Eugene is beheaded and Arbogast commits suicide.
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