brm_237964 - HONORIUS Maiorina pecunia, (MB, Æ 2)
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Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2011)
Price : 65.00 €
Type : Maiorina pecunia, (MB, Æ 2)
Date: 393-395
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,88 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et irrégulier. Beau portrait. Patine vert foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N HONORIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé d'Honorius à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORIA - ROMANORVM// ANT(GAMMA).
Reverse description : Honorius debout de face, vêtu militairement, tourné à droite, tenant un labarum chrismé de la main droite et un globe nicéphore de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Romanorum”, (La gloire des Romains).
Commentary
Poids léger. Diadème terminé par un cabochon rond et une fibule avec un cabochon rond. Ptéryges fines.
Lightweight. Tiara finished with a round cabochon and a fibula with a round cabochon. Thin pteryges
Lightweight. Tiara finished with a round cabochon and a fibula with a round cabochon. Thin pteryges
Historical background
HONORIUS
(01/22/393-08/15/423)
Born in 384, Honorius was named Augustus in 393. On the death of his father, he inherited the West with Stilicho as regent. The beginning of the 5th century saw an unprecedented wave of invasions. The limes definitely give way under the pressure. In 410, Rome was even taken. The Western empire is in full disintegration. Numerous usurpations took place in Brittany with Constantin III, in Gaul with Constans, Jovin and Sébastien, in Spain with Maxime and in Italy with Attale. Honorius dies in Ravenna in 423 after thirty years of reign, leaving an empire disintegrated.
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