Live auction - brm_880251 - VALENS Argenteus
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| Estimate : | 800 € |
| Price : | 400 € |
| Maximum bid : | 411 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 January 2024 15:45:18 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Argenteus
Date: 364-367
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,20 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré. Joli buste de Valens. Revers agréable. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N VALENS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Valens à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant ; diadème perlé (A’1a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Valens pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ V// CONS.
Reverse description : Légende en deux lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : “Votis quinquennalibus”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire).
Historical background
VALENS
(03/28/364-08/9/378)
Valens, after having been proclaimed august by his brother, receives the charge of governing the East. Since Decius, he is the first emperor killed in battle by the Goths in Adrianople, August 9, 378.
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