v57_0355 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Maiorina réduite, (PB, Æ 3)
MONNAIES 57 (2013)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina réduite, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 358
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,06 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Julien II césar. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine verte, légèrement granuleuse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL CL IVLIANVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste, drapé et cuirassé tête nue de Julien II césar à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Claudius Iulianus Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Flavien Claude Julien très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SPES REI-PVBLICE// MSLG.
Reverse description : Julien II debout à gauche, vêtu militairement, tenant un globe de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Spes Reipublice”, (L'Espérance de la République).
Commentary
Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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