brm_783719 - HONORIUS Silique, imitation d’époque
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Type : Silique, imitation d’époque
Date: après 422
Mint name / Town : Frappe locale, Afrique, copie de l’atelier de Ravenne
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 950 ‰
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 3 h.
Weight : 1,81 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, court sur les légendes. Beau buste d’Honorius. Joli rever court. Patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
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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).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre Seigneur Honorius Pieux Heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VRBS ROMA // RVPS.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Urbs Roma”, (La Ville de Rome).
Commentary
Flan court, mais poids lourd. Ce type se rencontre aussi pour l’atelier de Ravenne (RIC X/ 1345).
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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