brm_893151 - HONORIUS Nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
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Type : Nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 406-408
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,35 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan légèrement décentré. Usure régulière, plus prononcée au revers. Patine sombre et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HONORI-VS P F AVG/ *|-.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d’Honorius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”.
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORI-A ROMA-NORVM/ -|-// [...].
Reverse description : Arcadius, Honorius et Théodose debout de face, vêtus militairement.
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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