brm_893115 - HONORIUS Nummus
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Type : Nummus
Date: 395-401
Mint name / Town : Coelé Syrie, Antioche (Antiochia)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1e
Coments on the condition:
Flan centré, légèrement voilé. Usure régulière. Patine sombre et sable
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”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS -EXERCIT// ANTA.
Reverse description : Honorius debout de face, vêtu militairement, tourné à droite, tenant une haste de la main droite et appuyé de la main gauche sur un bouclier, couronné par la Victoire debout à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Exercitum”, (La Virilité de l’armée).
Commentary
Poids léger.
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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