v23_0649 - HONORIUS Solidus
MONNAIES 23 (2004)
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 421.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 421.00 €
Starting price : 350.00 €
Estimate : 550.00 €
Realised price : 421.00 €
Number of bids : 4
Maximum bid : 421.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 402-408
Mint name / Town : Flaminie, Ravenne, (Ravenna)
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,44 g.
Coments on the condition:
Très beau portrait. Revers de joli style. A été nettoyé anciennement
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) ; 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 trois 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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