brm_353826 - GRATIAN Nummus, , (PBQ, Æ 4)
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Nummus, , (PBQ, Æ 4)
Date: 378-383
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,43 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan bien centré et complet des deux cotés. Portrait de toute beauté. Magnifique patine verte. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Gratien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Gratianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Gratien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ XV/ MVLT/ XX// ASISC.
Reverse description : dans une couronne en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : "Votis quindecennalibus/ Multis vicennalibus", (Vœux pour le quinzième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le vingtième à venir).
Historical background
GRATIAN
(24/08/367-25/08/383)
Born in 359, Gratien was named Augustus at the age of 8. Having become "Senior Augustus" after the death of his uncle in 378, he had to share power with his half-brother Valentinian II and chose Theodosius to assist him in the East. In 378, he had the statue of Victory, a pagan reference in his eyes, removed from the senate hall. After the revolt of Magnus Maximus, he fled but was assassinated in Lyon on August 25, 383..
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