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Live auction - brm_364729 - ARCADIUS Solidus

ARCADIUS Solidus MS
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Estimate : 2 000 €
Price : 1 750 €
Maximum bid : 2 190 €
End of the sale : 29 September 2015 15:15:15
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Solidus
Date: 391-393
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,43 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait de toute beauté, de style fin. Revers de haut relief, bien venu à la frappe. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la vente Weil du 12 décembre 1997, n° 131 et de la collection François Charrin

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N ARCADI-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé d’Arcadius à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Arcadius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Arcadius pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CONCORDI-A AVGGG/ -|-// COMOB.
Reverse description : Constantinople assise de face, tournée à droite, casquée et drapée, tenant un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la gauche, 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).

Commentary


Émission sans marque d’officine qui semble beaucoup plus rare. Sur cet exemplaire, le buste d’Arcadius semble plus âgé. Ce type peut correspondre à l’émission des années 391-393 avec Constantinople tenant le globe et semble beaucoup plus rare.

Historical background


ARCADIUS

(01/19/383-05/1/408)

Arcadius was born in 377. Proclaimed august by his father on January 19, 383, he inherited the East after the death of Theodosius I. The weak Emperor let Rufin, the prefect of the Praetorium, and Eutrope, a palace eunuch, govern. Empress Eudoxia has considerable influence over the Emperor, and military power is in the hands of Gaïnas, a Goth. In 402, Arcadius associates his son Theodosius II, born the previous year, and a falling out ensues with Honorius. Arcadius dies in 408, aged 30.

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