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Live starting : Type : Solidus
Date: 357-361
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : gold
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,66 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 6e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée des deux côtés. Portrait agréable. Usure régulière. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TIVS - P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Constance II à droite (O’a); diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantius Maximus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constance premier auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA - REI - PVBLICAE// SMNS.
Reverse description : Rome et Constantinople assises de face sur une banquette, tenant ensemble un bouclier sur lequel on lit : VOT/ XXXX en deux lignes.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Rei Publicæ/ Votis quadracennalibus”, (La gloire de la République/ Vœux pour les quarante années de règne).
Commentary
Monnaie montée anciennement.
Formerly minted coin
Formerly minted coin
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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