v38_1315 - JOVIAN Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Vénétie et Istrie, Aquilée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,20 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IOVIA-NVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Jovien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iovianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ V/ MVLT/ X// AQVILS.
Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Votis quinquennalibus Multis decennalibus”, (Voeux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne et plus pour les dix années à venir).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cabochon rond. Fibule ronde. Ptéryges fines. Atelier recherché.
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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