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Live auction - brm_417147 - CONSTANTINE III Silique

CONSTANTINE III Silique AU/XF
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Estimate : 1 200 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 14 March 2017 14:59:54
Type : Silique
Date: 408-411
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,57 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés avec une faiblesse de frappe au revers entre 5 et 6 heures. Très beau portrait de Constantin III. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets dorés. A été nettoyé anciennement

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N CONSTAN-TINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin III à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin pieux et heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AAVG[GG]/ -|-// [SMAR].
Reverse description : Rome casquée et drapée assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary


Sur notre exemplaire, la marque d’atelier à l’exergue (SMAR) n’est pas visible. Cependant le style du portrait permet d’attribuer à Arles cette silique dont P. Ferrando a recensé vint-et-un exemplaires dont sept dans les collections privées.

Historical background


CONSTANTINE III

(407- summer 411)

Constantine III seizes power in England in 407 and goes to Gaul to try to stem the wave of barbarian invasions. Trèves was taken on December 31, 406, and in 408 he conquered Spain. At the beginning of his reign, with four Gs on the reverse of the coins, he recognized four augusts: Arcadius, Honorius, Theodosius II and himself. The years 408-411 are among the darkest in the history of Gaul and the West. In 411, we have seven augusts: Honorius and Theodosius II, Constantine III and Constans, Maximus, Attalus and Jovin. Constantine III, after being betrayed by his Spanish general Gerontius is besieged by Constantius, taken prisoner, sent to Honorius and executed.

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