Live auction - brm_829433 - PULCHERIA Tremissis
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| Estimate : | 3 500 € |
| Price : | 2 000 € |
| Maximum bid : | 2 000 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 June 2023 15:13:07 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Tremissis
Date: c. 420-450
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté, de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Revers finement détaillé. Exemplaire ayant conservé l’intégralité de son brillant d’origine et de son coupant de frappe
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : AEL PVLCH-ERIA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Pulchérie à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L4).
Obverse translation : “Ælia Pulcheria Augusta” (Aelia Pulcheria augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE// CONOB*.
Reverse description : Croix dans une couronne.
Historical background
PULCHERIA
(+453)
Augusta -sister of Theodosius II
Pulcheria is the daughter of Arcadius and Eudoxia. Born in 399, she was created augusta in 414. She had a strong ascendancy over her brother Theodosius II. After the consecutive death of her parents, in 404 and 408, she became regent of the Eastern Empire, at a time when the Barbarians crossed the limes and ravaged Thrace and the western provinces. Rome is taken in 410. It is she who will be the true monarch throughout the reign of Theodosius II, she again who chooses a wife, Eudocia. After the death of her brother, Pulchérie chooses a successor, Marcien, and marries him, after devoting her existence to chastity. She died in 453, a virgin, leaving her property to the poor.
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