v34_1048 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Silique

MONNAIES 34 (2008)
Starting price : 320.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
Realised price : 501.00 €
Number of bids : 3
Maximum bid : 501.00 €

Type : Silique

Date: 359-360

Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 18 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,21 g.

Rarity : R1

Officine: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait imberbe et nue tête de Julien. Joli revers. Très belle patine de médaillier avec des reflets bleutés acier

Catalogue references :

C.154 var. (3f.) - RIC.263 (R2) - RSC.154 b - F.1213 - MRK.153 /9 (180€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IVLIANV-S NOB CAES.

Obverse description : Buste drapé et cuirassé, tête nue de Julien II césar à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A°).

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Flavius Claudius Iulianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Flavien Claude Julien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VOTIS/ V/ MVLTIS/ X/ -|-// TCON.

Reverse description : Légende en quatre lignes dans une couronne.

Reverse translation : “Votis quinquennalibus/ Multis decennalibus”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne et pour le dixième à venir).

Commentary

Ptéryges invisibles et cloutées sous le paludamentum.

Historical background

JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER

(6/11/355-26/06/363)

Caésar

Julian II was born in 330 in Constantinople. Spared during the massacre of his entire family in 337, he was sent into exile with his half-brother Constantius Galle. When the latter becomes Caesar, he obtains semi-freedom and completes his education, particularly in Athens. Converted to Christianity by force, he remained deeply pagan and was initiated into the worship of Eleusis and that of Mithras. After the death of Constantius Galle, he became Caesar on November 6, 355. Constantius sent him to Gaul to restore order, but without effective powers. He freed himself from this guardianship and won a great victory near Strasbourg in 357. He established his headquarters in Lutèce. It was there, in February 360, that he was proclaimed august by his troops, the first emperor on a shield..