v34_1073 - THEODOSIUS I Nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Nummus, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 384-387
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,68 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan très épais pour ce type. Beau portrait. Revers de frappe un peu molle. Patine marron foncé
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).
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Theodosius Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre seigneur Théodose pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA RO-MANORVM/ -|B// TES.
Reverse description : Théodose Ier debout de face, vêtu militairement, tenant par les cheveux un captif agenouillé et de la main gauche, un labarum chrismé.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Romanorum”, (La gloire des romains).
Commentary
Poids très lourd inexpliqué. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
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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