v55_0427 - JOVIAN Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,50 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 8,23 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et bien centré des deux côtés. Portrait magnifique de Jovien, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine vert olive profond
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IOVIANV-S P F P P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Jovien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'b) ; diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Iovianus Pius Felix Perpetuus Augustus" (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux heureux perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - ROMANORVM// TES.
Reverse description : Jovien debout de face, la tête tournée à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant le labarum chrismé de la main droite et un globe nicéphore de la gauche.
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Romanorum”, (La Victoire des romains).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Diadème composite. Cabochon carré gemmé. Fibule d’attache ronde et gemmée. Ptéryges fines.
Historical background
JOVIAN
(06/27/363-02/17/364)
Jovian was born in 331 in Singidunum in Moesia. Count of the domestici (Ammianus Marcellinus, History, XXV, 5/4), he succeeded Julian II the Philosopher on June 27, 363. A Christian, he rallied to the Nicene creed and abolished Julian's anti-Christian edicts. Jovian signed peace with the Sassanid king, Sapor II (309-379). He had to abandon Nisibis, Singara and part of Armenia. Jovian retreated with the remains of the army and arrived in Antioch in October 363. He assumed his first consulate on January 1, 364 in the company of his son Flavius Varronianus, a child. He died of asphyxiation by a brazier on February 17, 364 in Dadastana, a small town located between Nicaea and Ancyra. On the following February 26, Valentinian was proclaimed Augustus..
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