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| Estimate : | 5 000 € |
| Price : | 3 300 € |
| Maximum bid : | 5 500 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 September 2025 15:14:15 |
| bidders : | 3 bidders |
Type : Solidus
Date: 343-344
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé. Très joli revers. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Avec son certificat d’exportation n°255802 délivré par le Ministère français de la Culture
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTIVS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé ; le tout dans une couronne fermée par un cabochon.
Obverse translation : “Constantius Augustus”, (Constance auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA DD NN AVGG/ VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// TES.
Reverse description : Deux victoires debout face à face, tenant ensemble un bouclier sur lequel est inscrit une légende en quatre lignes ; le tout dans une couronne fermée par un cabochon.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum// Votis decennalibus Votis vicennalibus”, (La Victoire de nos seigneurs augustes/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le trentième 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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