brm_819157 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Silique
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Price : 500.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 361-362
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 2,01 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, idéalement centré. Joli buste de style fin. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant du trésor de Vale of Pewsey, 2020, n° 10
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL CL IVLIA-NVS P P AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Julien II à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Flavius Claudius Julianus Perpetuus Pius Augustus”, (Flavien Claude Julien Perpétuel Pieux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS/ V/ MVLTIS/ X// SLVG.
Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Votis Quinquennalia/ Multis Decennalia”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le dixième anniversaire à venir).
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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