v36_1093 - JOVIAN Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
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Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,51 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur flan très épais, large et irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IOVIAN-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Jovien à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’1a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iovianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ V/ MVLT/ X// HERACB.
Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Votis quinquennalibus/ Multis decennalibus”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le dixième anniversaire de règne à venir).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cabochon carré. Fibule ronde. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
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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