brm_850343 - CONSTANTIUS II Solidus
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Price : 2 900.00 €
Type : Solidus
Date: 337-340
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,52 g.
Rarity : R2
Slab
NGC :
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, idéalement centré. Très joli revers, finement détaillé. Buste agréable. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire sous coques NGC AU (Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5)
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL IVL CONSTAN-TIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Iulius Constantius Pius Felix Augustus” (Flavien Jules Constance pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - DD NN AVGG // TES.
Reverse description : Victoire marchant à gauche, tenant un trophée de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoriæ Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum”,(À la Victoire de nos seigneurs augustes).
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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