brm_480289 - EUGENIUS Silique

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Price : 750.00 €

Type : Silique

Date: 392-394

Mint name / Town : Milan

Metal : silver

Diameter : 16 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 0,98 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Flan mince et ovale avec un beau buste. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

C.14 (20f) - RIC.32 c, pl. 14 - RC.4216 (500£) - RSC.14 b (900£) - MRK.164 /8 (900€) - RCV.20689 (750$)

Predigree :

Exemplaire provenant de la collection AJRR

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N EVGENI-VS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste barbu, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d'Eugène à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.

Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Eugenius Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre seigneur Eugène pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VIRTVS RO-MANORVM// MDPS.

Reverse description : Rome, casquée, vêtu militairement, asise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.

Reverse translation : (La virilité des Romains).

Commentary

Poids très léger.
Very light weight

Historical background

EUGENIUS

(22/08/392-6/09/394)

Valentinian II was assassinated on May 15, 392 at the instigation of Arbogast, the real holder of power in the West. The Western empire remains vacant for three months. Eugene, master of offices, was proclaimed august on August 22, 392 by Arbogast. Professor of rhetoric, he is the antithesis of the barbarian general, the true master of the West. The nomination of Eugene is the occasion of the ultimate pagan reaction in the Roman circles of Urbs. Theodosius refuses to recognize Eugene, finally defeated at the Battle of the Cold River. Eugene is beheaded and Arbogast commits suicide.

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