Live auction - bmv_949554 - VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE Demi-silique

VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE Demi-silique AU

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Starting price :	900 €
Estimate :	1 600 €
Price :	900 €
Maximum bid :	960 €
End of the sale :	24 September 2024 15:48:55
bidders :	1 bidder

Type : Demi-silique

Date: s.d.

Mint name / Town : atelier incertain

Metal : silver

Diameter : 11,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 0,42 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Cette demi-silique est frappé sur un flan assez large et irrégulier. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

RIC.X, n° 3709 (R5) - C.41

Predigree :

Monnaie provenant de la VSO CGB MONNAIES 38, n° 1358 et de la collection Philippe Schiesser

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N HONORI-VS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé, d'Honorius à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTOR- IA AVGGG.

Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant une croix chrismée de la main droite et une haste de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary

Demi-silique probablement wisigothique (selon le RIC X) s’inspirant de monnaies d’Honorius (393-423). Classée avec un indice de rareté R5 dans cet ouvrage.

Historical background

VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE

(5th-6th century)

The Goths were settled at the mouth of the Vistula in the 1st century AD. They divided into Visigoths (Western Goths) and Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths). On August 9, 378, they crushed the Romans at Adrianople where Valens was killed. Alaric, king of the Visigoths, first besieges Ravenna where Honorius resides and takes Rome in 410. Athaulf, his brother-in-law, succeeds him and marries Galla Placidia, Honorius' sister. Wallia, his brother, founded in 419 the kingdom of the Visigoths of Toulouse which was to last a century. Euric (466-484) adds Spain to his kingdom. Clovis, king of the Franks, crushes Alaric II (484-507) at the battle of Vouillé in 507, destroying the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse. The Visigoths nevertheless retain Spain and Septimania. The Spanish dynasty will reign until Rodrigue and the invasion of the Arabs in 711. It will take the energy of a Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace, to stop the Muslims in Poitiers in 732.