E-auction 406-318439 - brm_641955 - CONSTANTIUS II Demi-maiorina, (PB, Æ 3)
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| Estimate : | 125 € |
| Price : | 91 € |
| Maximum bid : | 91 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 January 2021 14:45:30 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Demi-maiorina, (PB, Æ 3)
Date: 351-354
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,58 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire sur un flan bien centré. Buste de Constance II de toute beauté. Revers de style fin. Très belle patine vert noir. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP - REPARATIO/ -|-// SMHE.
Reverse description : Soldat casqué, vêtu militairement, tenant un bouclier sur le bras gauche et une haste de la main droite terrassant un cavalier tombé au sol couché sur son cheval qui est tourné à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum Reparatio”, (Le retour des temps heureux).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. C’est la première fois que nous proposons un exemplaire de ce type à la vente pour cet atelier.
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the first time we have offered a specimen of this type for sale from this workshop.
Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum. This is the first time we have offered a specimen of this type for sale from this workshop.
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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