brm_732470 - VALENS Demi-maiorina, (PB, Æ 3)
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Type : Demi-maiorina, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 364-365
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,67 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée, avec un joli revers. Patine verte
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N VALEN-S P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Valens à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Valens pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : RESTITV-TOR REI P// TES.
Reverse description : Valens de bout de face, tourné à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant de la main droite le labarum chrismé et de la gauche, un globe nicéphore.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : “Restitutor Rei Publicæ”, (Le restaurateur du bien public).
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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