brm_480309 - CONSTANTINE III Silique

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Price : 350.00 €

Type : Silique

Date: 408-411

Mint name / Town : Arles

Metal : silver

Diameter : 15,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,43 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire à l’usure régulière avec un beau revers complet. Patine de collection ancienne

Catalogue references :

C.4 (20f.) - RIC.1538 - RSC.4 h (650£) - F.1555 - AMA.1705 (21 ex.) - EMA.203 /1 - RCV.21072 (1250$)

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection AJRR

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 heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AAVGGG/ -|-// 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

P. Ferrando recense 21 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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