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Live auction - brm_345225 - EUGENIUS Miliarense léger

EUGENIUS Miliarense léger AU
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Estimate : 6 000 €
Price : 7 000 €
Maximum bid : 7 000 €
End of the sale : 31 March 2015 14:47:17
bidders : 3 bidders
Type : Miliarense léger
Date: 392-394
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,09 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait d’Eugène. Revers de haut relief. Jolie patine avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DN EVGENI-VS P FAVG.
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 - EXERCITVS/ -|-// TRPS.
Reverse description : L’empereur debout à gauche, lauré et vêtu militairement, tenant un labarum de la main droite et s’appuyant sur un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtvs Exercitum”, (La Virilité de l’armée).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges sont invisibles sous le paludamentum. Exemplaire de même coin de droit que l’exemplaire reproduit dans le Roman Silver Coins, n°13. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. Dans la seconde édition du Cohen en 1892, il cotait 300 francs or ! C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.

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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