v36_1082 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Silique
MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Type : Silique
Date: 360-361
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 1,77 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Emission: 141e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Joli revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CL IVLI-ANVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Julien II Auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Claudius Iulianus Augustus”, (Notre Seigneur Claude Julien Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS/ V/ MVLTIS/ X// TCON.
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 à venir).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cabochon gemmé. Les ptéryges sont invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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