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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 347-348
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,77 g.
Officine: 12e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée. Portrait de toute beauté, finement détaillé. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Constance à droite (O'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : "Constantius Pius Felix Augustus", (Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// SMANBI.
Reverse description : dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Votis vicennalibus multis tricennalibus", (Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le trentième anniversaire à venir),.
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS II
(8/11/324-3/11/361)
Augustus
Constantius II was born on August 7, 318 in Sirmium. He was raised to the cesarat on November 8, 324 at the age of six. He will reign 37 years, one of the longest reigns of the 4th century. After having crushed the revolt of Magnentius, he was alone august with a Caesar, Constance Galle, whom he had executed in 354. On November 6, 355, he elevated his cousin Julian to the title of Caesar. He went to Rome in 357, then to Sirmium, which he made his capital. Faced with the Sassanid danger, he left this region in 359 and settled in Antioch. Julien is proclaimed august in February 360. Constantius dies on November 3, 361, leaving Julien at the head of the Empire.
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