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Live auction - brm_466497 - GRATIAN Silique

GRATIAN Silique MS
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Estimate : 550 €
Price : 320 €
Maximum bid : 320 €
End of the sale : 06 March 2018 16:06:50
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Silique
Date: 375-378
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,01 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Gratien. Revers magnifique finement détaillé. Jolie patine de collection ancienne avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire a été acquis en 2005 et provient de la collection C. Oliva

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Gratien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Gratianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Gratien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VRBS - ROMA/ -|-// TRPS..
Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche sur une cuirasse, les jambes croisées, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long perlé de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Urbs Roma”, (La ville de Rome).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cabochon rond gemmé du diadème. Les ptéryges sont à peine visibles sous le paludamentum. Fibule ronde en attache sur le paludamentum. Buste normal. Au revers sceptre bouleté.

Historical background


GRATIAN

(24/08/367-25/08/383)

Born in 359, Gratien was named Augustus at the age of 8. Having become "Senior Augustus" after the death of his uncle in 378, he had to share power with his half-brother Valentinian II and chose Theodosius to assist him in the East. In 378, he had the statue of Victory, a pagan reference in his eyes, removed from the senate hall. After the revolt of Magnus Maximus, he fled but was assassinated in Lyon on August 25, 383..

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