brm_988571 - THEODOSIUS I Solidus
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Type : Solidus
Date: 382-383
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Très beau buste finement détaillé. Joli revers de style fin. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la vente Vinchon du 14 novembre 1981, lot n° 145
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N THEODO-SIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'b); diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Theodosius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Théodose pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA AVGGG B/ -|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Constantinople assise de face tournée à droite, casquée et drapée, tenant un globe de la main gauche et un sceptre long de la droite ; le pied gauche posé sur une proue de navire ; le siège est orné de têtes de lion.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des 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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