brm_335480 - CONSTANTIUS II Silique
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 275.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 275.00 €
Type : Silique
Date: 358-360
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,36 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 11e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale, parfaitement centré. Très beau portrait de l’empereur. Patine grise épaisse
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOTIS/ XXX/ MVLTIS/ XXXX// C (BRANCHE) IA.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : “Votis tricennalibus/ Multis quadracennalibus”, (Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le quarantième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges larges.
Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Large pteryga
Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Large pteryga
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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