v31_0682 - JOVIAN Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina ou nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,62 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier avec une fêlure de frappe à 1 heure au revers. Beau portrait. Revers bien venu à la frappe mis en valeur par une très jolie patine vert noir et sable
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IOVIAN - VS 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// ANT.
Reverse description : en deux lignes dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : “Votis Quinquennalibus”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. 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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