brm_792400 - HONORIUS Exagium solidi
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Type : Exagium solidi
Date: c. 408-420
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,51 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli buste. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HONORI/VS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’) ; le tout dans un grènetis carré.
Reverse
Reverse legend : EXAGIVM/ SOLIDI.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) , Aequitas (l’Équité) ou Victoria (la Victoire) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche ; le tout dans un grènetis carré.
Reverse translation : “Exagium Solidi”, (poids de solidus).
Commentary
Poids monétaire. Flan carré.
Historical background
HONORIUS
(01/22/393-08/15/423)
Born in 384, Honorius was named Augustus in 393. On the death of his father, he inherited the West with Stilicho as regent. The beginning of the 5th century saw an unprecedented wave of invasions. The limes definitely give way under the pressure. In 410, Rome was even taken. The Western empire is in full disintegration. Numerous usurpations took place in Brittany with Constantin III, in Gaul with Constans, Jovin and Sébastien, in Spain with Maxime and in Italy with Attale. Honorius dies in Ravenna in 423 after thirty years of reign, leaving an empire disintegrated.
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