brm_893227 - HONORIUS Nummus
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Price : 50.00 €
Type : Nummus
Date: 404-408
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,00 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Jolie monnaie sur un flan légèrement décentre. Beau droit détaillé, revers plus usé. Patine marron sombre et sable
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HONOR-IVS 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 : VRBS RO-MA FELIX/ [OF|P]// SMROM[...].
Reverse description : Rome debout de face, la tête tournée vers la droite, tenant un trophée et une victoriola ; à ses pieds à gauche, un bouclier.
Reverse translation : “Urbs Roma Felix”, (Ville de Rome heureuse).
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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