v11_0526 - HONORIUS Silique
MONNAIES 11 (2002)
Starting price : 137.20 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 229.44 €
Starting price : 137.20 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 182.94 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 229.44 €
Type : Silique
Date: 395-402/408
Mint name / Town : Émilie, Milan
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,30 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Flan irrégulier. Patine de collection. Flan un peu court au revers
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).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS RO-MANORVM// MDPS.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste renversée de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Romanorum”, (La virilité des Romains).
Commentary
Trace de frappe incuse du portrait visible au revers.
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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