brm_351045 - VALENTINIAN II Nummus, (Æ 3)
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Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2017)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Nummus, (Æ 3)
Date: 379-383
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,11 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur unpetit flan bien centré. Beau portrait. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N VALENTINIANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Valentinien II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Valentinien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCOR-DIA AVGGG/.
Reverse description : Rome assise de face, casquée, vêtue militairement, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche.
Reverse legend : q|F/K// ANTD.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (La Concorde des trois augustes).
Commentary
Représentation du revers inhabituelle.
Historical background
VALENTINIAN II
(17/11/375-15/05/392)
Valentinian II, son of Valentinian I, was proclaimed august at the age of four. After being driven out of Italy by Magnus Maximus in 387, he was restored to the throne by Theodosius I before being assassinated in 392 by Arbogast, who preferred Eugene to him..
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