v43_1060 - THEODOSIUS I Nummus, (Æ 3)
MONNAIES 43 (2010)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Type : Nummus, (Æ 3)
Date: 379-383
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 7 h.
Weight : 2,33 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé lissée
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Théodose Ier à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Theodosius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Théodose pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA AVGGG/ -|-// ASISC.
Reverse description : Concordia ou Rome assise de face, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des trois augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cabochon carré. Fibule d’attache avec trois pendants. Ptéryges invisibles.
Historical background
THEODOSIUS I
(01/19/379-01/17/395)
Theodosius I, of Spanish origin, was the son of General Theodosius, executed in 375. After the disappearance of Valens in Adrianople in 378, Gratian chose him to assist him. Theodosius I, who became august in 379, succeeded in restoring the unity of the Roman Empire. He had to face the usurpation of Magnus Maximus between 383 and 388 and that of Eugene from 392 to 394. In 394, the Empire was reunited for the first time in thirty years. Upon his death, his inheritance will be divided between his two sons, Honorius for the West and Arcadius for the East. Theodosius I founded a dynasty that would reign over the Eastern and Western empires for nearly eighty years before the fall of Rome.
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