v16_0690 - THEODOSIUS I Silique
MONNAIES 16 (2002)
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 210.00 €
Number of bids : 7
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Starting price : 110.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 210.00 €
Number of bids : 7
Maximum bid : 210.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 379-383
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : + 900 ‰
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan irrégulier
Catalogue references :
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 : CONCOR-DIA AVGGG// TRPS.
Reverse description : Concordia ou Constantinople trônant de face, drapée, la tête tournée à droite, le pied droit posé sur une proue, tenant un sceptre long de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (la Concorde des trois augustes).
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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