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Live auction - brm_374372 - EUGENIUS Silique

EUGENIUS Silique AU
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Estimate : 1 500 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 27 September 2016 15:01:17
Type : Silique
Date: 392-394
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Diameter : 15,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,56 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale, un peu court sur les légendes. Très beau portrait d’Eugène. Revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine de médaillier avec des reflets mordorés avec des reflets bleutés irisés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection MG

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N EVGE[NI]-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-[MA)NORVM/ -|-// TRPS.
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et une haste renversée de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Romanorum”, (La virilité des Romains).

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Belle fibule d’attache sur l’épaule. Cet exemplaire n’a pas le flan éclaté comme c’est souvent le cas.

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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