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| Estimate : | 7 000 € |
| Price : | 3 800 € |
| Maximum bid : | 3 800 € |
| End of the sale : | 06 June 2023 15:09:25 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Solidus
Date: 407-408
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,50 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie exceptionnelle malgré le petit coup sur la joue de Constantin III et le flan légèrement voilé. Revers fantastique, finement détaillé. Patine de collection
Predigree :
Exemplaire acheté à Roland Kazmierczak à St Saturnin les Apt (84), en février 2010
Avec son certificat d'exportation de bien culturel n°225220 délivré par le ministère français de la Culture
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) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AAVGGG/ L|D// COMOB.
Reverse description : L'empereur debout à droite, vêtu militairement, le pied gauche posé sur un captif couché à gauche, les mains liées dans le dos, tenant un étendard de la main droite et un globe nicéphore de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
C’est la première fois que nous présentons un solidus de Constantin III à la vente ! .
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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