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Live starting : Type : Solidus
Date: 345
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : gold
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,60 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique monnaie sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté ainsi qu’un revers finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANS - AVGVSTVS.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Constans Augustus”, (Constans auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIAE DD NN AVGG/ VOT/ X/ MVLT/ XX// TR.
Reverse description : Deux victoires debout face à face, tenant ensemble un bouclier sur lequel est inscrit une légende en quatre lignes.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum// Votis decennalibus Multis vicennalibus”, (La Victoire de nos seigneurs augustes/ Vœux pour le dixième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le vingtième à venir).
Historical background
CONSTANS
(25/12/335-18/01/350)
Augustus
Constans was born in 320 and received the title of Caesar on December 25, 333. Made august after September 9, 337 with his two other brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II, he soon became angry with his elder brother, who died in April 340. After the death of his brother, Constans recovers the heritage of Constantine II and obtains the charge of the West. A maiorina is struck on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of Rome in 348, an anniversary recalled by the reverse legend "the Return of Happy Times". Constans is assassinated at the beginning of the year 350.
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