brm_960761 - POEMENIUS Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
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Price : 230.00 €
Type : Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
Date: 353
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 7,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et centré. Agréable buste au droit, détaillé malgré l’usure. Patine sombre
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : [D N CONSTAN]-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus" (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS [AVG NOSTRI]// TRS*.
Reverse description : Grand chrisme accosté de l'alpha et de l'oméga.
Reverse translation : "Salus Augusti Nostri" (La Santé de notre auguste).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
Historical background
POEMENIUS
(353)
Coinage in the name of Constantius II
A revolt occurred in Trier at the beginning of the year 353 against Magnentius and Decency. It was led by Poemenius who minted in the name of Constantius and had double maiorina minted in the type of the chrism accosted by the alpha and the omega which are in Greek the first and last letters of the alphabet and recall the words of the Christ "I am the beginning and I am the end". The revolt was apparently crushed quickly. These coins of the Constance type are therefore very rare. It is interesting to find this law of Constantius, who defended the Arian religious theories, on the reverse of this coin rather favorable to the orthodoxy of the Council of Nicaea (325).
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