brm_314528 - POEMENIUS Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
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Price : 225.00 €
Type : Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
Date: 353
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 1 h.
Weight : 4,97 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier, échancré, un peu court sur les légendes. Très beau portrait de Constance II. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert noir
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock de CGB et de la collection F. de La Viuda
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// TRP*.
Reverse description : Grand chrisme accosté de l'alpha et de l'oméga.
Reverse translation : "Salus Augusti Nostri", (La Santé de notre auguste).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Petite gemme sur le diadème. Fibule d’attache ronde sur le vêtement. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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