v08_0677 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Silique
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 144.83 €
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
Realised price : 144.83 €
Type : Silique
Date: 360-361
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 900 ‰
Diameter : 16 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait / Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVLIAN-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Julien II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Julien pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS// V// MVLTIS// X// SCON.
Reverse description : dans une couronne en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : (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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