v18_0735 - JOVIAN Maiorina ou nummus
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina ou nummus
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Europe, Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Portrait magnifique. Flan irrégulier, au revers en particulier avec une jolie patine vert noir lissée
Catalogue references :
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).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Jovianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ ./ V// HERACA.
Reverse description : Légende en deux lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Votis Quinquennalia”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne).
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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