v13_1400 - HONORIUS Nummus, (Æ 2)
MONNAIES 13 (2001)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 153.97 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 156.26 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 274.41 €
Realised price : 153.97 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 156.26 €
Type : Nummus, (Æ 2)
Date: 393-395
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,16 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage avec une magnifique patine vert olive foncé sur un flan très épais. Revers de haut relief
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HONORIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d'Honorius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA - ROMANORVM// CONS.
Reverse description : Honorius debout de face, vêtu militairement, tourné à droite, tenant un labarum chrismé de la main droite et un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : “Gloria Romanorum”, (La gloire des Romains).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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