v28_0421 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Silique
MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 489.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 575.00 €
Starting price : 225.00 €
Estimate : 350.00 €
Realised price : 489.00 €
Number of bids : 5
Maximum bid : 575.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 361-362
Mint name / Town : Lyonnaise, Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,55 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan bien centré. Beau portrait. Jolie patine avec des reflets mordorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL CL IVLIA-NVS P P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Julien II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Flavius Claudius Iulianus Perpetuus Pius Augustus”, (Flavien Claude Julien perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT// X// MVLT// XX/ -|-// PLVG.
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 à venir).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
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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