v21_3860 - PULCHERIA Tremissis

MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 2 100.00 €
Estimate : 2 800.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Tremissis

Date: c. 414-453

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 14,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 1,52 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Portrait de toute beauté. Bien centré au revers. Exemplaire ayant conservé son brillant d’origine

Catalogue references :

RIC.334 (R2) - Dep.72 /4 - LRC. 450 - MRK.169 /2 (2000€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : AEL PVLCH-ERIA AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Pulchérie à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L’a).

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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