brm_347792 - GRATIAN Maiorina pecunia
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Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 75.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2015)
Price : 75.00 €
Type : Maiorina pecunia
Date: 378-383
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,08 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan irrégulier. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Patine vert foncé
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock d’Alain Poinsignon (Strasbourg)
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé de Gratien à droite, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Gratianus Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre Seigneur Gratien Pieux et heureux Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : REPARATIO - REIPVB// LVGP.
Reverse description : L’empereur debout de face, tourné à gauche, vêtu militairement, tenant le globe nicéphore de la main gauche, relevant une femme agenouillée de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Reparatio Reipublicae”, (La Restauration de la République).
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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