v41_1378 - CONSTANTIUS II Maiorina
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina
Date: 348-350
Mint name / Town : Europe, Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,50 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 5,48 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan épais, légèrement échancré à 3 et à 9 heures. Beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un globe de la main droite (A'6a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP - REPARATIO/ -|-// SMHB.
Reverse description : L'empereur, tête nue, vêtu militairement debout de face tourné à gauche, tenant un labarum chrismé de la main droite et un bouclier de la main gauche ; à ses pieds, deux captifs marchant à gauche.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum Reparatio”, (Le retour des temps heureux).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Fibule d’attache sur l’épaule. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Attachment fibula on the shoulder. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum
Very heavy weight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Attachment fibula on the shoulder. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum
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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