v31_0694 - GRATIAN Silique

MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 150.00 €
Estimate : 250.00 €
unsold lot

Type : Silique

Date: 375-378

Mint name / Town : Vénétie et Istrie, Aquilée

Metal : silver

Diameter : 17,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 1,93 g.

Rarity : R1

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un flan échancré de 3 à 5 heures. Beau portrait. Revers de joli style. Jolie patine de médaillier avec des reflets dorés et bleutés acier

Catalogue references :

C.- - RIC.28 a - RSC.56 d (135£) - RICA.707

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N GRATIA-NVS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadèmé, drapé et cuirassé de Gratien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Gratianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Gratien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VIRTVS RO-MANORVM.

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

Reverse translation : “Urbs Roma”, (Ville de Rome).

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Fibule ronde.

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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v31_0694 - GRATIAN Silique

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

GRATIAN

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

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