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Live auction - brm_685551 - BONIFATIVS Nummus

BONIFATIVS Nummus AU
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Estimate : 1 800 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 07 September 2021 16:04:09
Type : Nummus
Date: c. 423-425
Mint name / Town : Carthage
Metal : copper
Diameter : 11 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,18 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Très bel exemplaire sur un flan court, centré des deux côtés. Très joli revers ainsi qu’un buste bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection Jean Vivien (1908-1986), notaire à Roanne

Obverse


Obverse legend : DOMINIS. NOS[TRIS].
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Boniface à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominis Nostris” (de notre Maître).

Reverse


Reverse legend : CART-A-[GINE P P] / -|(CROIX) // -.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : ‘Cartagine Pater Patriae” (De Carthage, Père de la Patrie).

Commentary


Exemplaire de la plus grande rareté, non publié. Un autre exemplaire similaire est connu (vente CNG, Triton XIII, lot n° 428) mais avec le chrisme dans le champ gauche. Semble complètement inédit et non recensé avec cette variante de la croix dans le champ à droite. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés.

Historical background


BONIFATIVS

(422-432)

Boniface (died 432) was a Roman general and governor of the Diocese of Africa. He campaigned against the Visigoths in Roman Gaul and the Vandals in Roman Africa. Ally of Galla Placidia (regent of Valentinian III), Boniface engaged in the Roman civil wars against the generals Flavius Felix, in 427-429, and Flavius Aetius, in 432. Although he defeated the latter during the battle of Rimini, Boniface suffers a mortal wound and is succeeded by his son-in-law, Sebastianus, as patrician of the Western Roman Empire (Wikipedia).

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