brm_957356 - HONORIUS Solidus
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Type : Solidus
Date: 408-423
Mint name / Town : Ravenna
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,40 g.
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Belle monnaie sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli buste, bien venu à la frappe. Patine de collection
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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) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGGG/ R|V// COMOB.
Reverse description : L'empereur debout à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant un étendard de la main droite et un globe nicéphore de la main gauche le pied gauche posé sur un captif couché à gauche, les mains liées dans le dos.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
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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