v21_3835 - EUGENIUS Silique
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 200.00 €
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 1 500.00 €
Realised price : 1 200.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 392-394
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan un peu court. Portrait magnifique de haut relief et de joli style.
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 trônant de face, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Romanorum”, (La virilité des Romains).
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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