brm_141748 - HONORIUS Nummus, (PBQ, Æ 4)
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Type : Nummus, (PBQ, Æ 4)
Date: 408-423
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 1,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Divisionnaire rare. Flan irrégulier. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : DN HONORI-VS P F AVG/ *|-.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, 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”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA - ROMANORVM// TESA.
Reverse description : Deux empereurs (Honorius et Théodose II) debout face à face vêtus militairement. Ils tiennent chacun une haste de la main droite et sont appuyés de la gauche sur un bouclier. Théodose II est plus petit qu'Honorius.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Romanorum”, (La gloire des romains).
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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