v31_0671 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Double maiorina imitation, (GB, Æ 1)
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 551.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Number of bids : 1
Maximum bid : 551.00 €
Type : Double maiorina imitation, (GB, Æ 1)
Date: 363
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 9,74 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait taillé à la serpe. Taureau stylisé. Magnifique patine vert olive clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Julien II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Flavius Claudius Iulianus Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre seigneur Flavien Claude Julien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRITA-S R-EIPVB/ -|-// TCONST.
Reverse description : Taureau passant à droite surmonté de deux étoiles ; devant lui, un aigle debout à droite sur une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Rei Publicæ”, (La Sécurité de la République).
Commentary
Portrait particulier. Imitation de bon style, mais au portrait stylisé, à l’épigraphie correcte, mais singulière au revers. Rubans de type 3.
Historical background
JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER
(6/11/355-26/06/363)
Augustus
Julien II, Caesar in 355, was proclaimed august in Paris in February 360. After the death of Constantius II, in November 361, he remained sole master of the empire. Installed in Antioch at the beginning of 363 where he wrote the Misopogon (Of those who are against the beard - because he wore the beard of the philosophers), he abjured Christianity by trying to create a pagan syncretism. This policy failed and did not survive the emperor who died on June 26, 363, killed or assassinated, while he had begun a brilliant campaign against the Sassanids..
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