v25_0803 - VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE Triens à la victoire à droite
MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 362.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 800.00 €
Starting price : 1 200.00 €
Estimate : 2 200.00 €
Realised price : 1 362.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 1 800.00 €
Type : Triens à la victoire à droite
Date: VIe siècle
Metal : gold
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exceptionnel exemplaire, complet au droit et au revers, sur un flan large et de frappe vigoureuse. Très bel aspect. Cassure de coin sur le grènetis à 7 heures au revers
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IVSTI-NVS P P AVG, (S RÉTROGRADES).
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé de Justinien à droite, une croisette sur le buste et une fibule sur l’épaule.
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AV(...)VITORAP // CONOB.
Reverse description : Victoire stylisée marchant à droite, sur une ligne d’exergue, tenant une couronne de la main droite ; un épis dans le champ, sous la couronne, et un autre au-dessus de l‘aile, barrant la légende.
Commentary
Triens au nom de Justin Ier (518-527).
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.
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