brm_463084 - HONORIUS Nummus

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Price : 50.00 €

Type : Nummus

Date: c. 420-430

Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain

Metal : silver

Diameter : 12 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 1,14 g.

Rarity : R2

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, court sur les légendes, identifiable. Patine marron

Catalogue references :

C.- - RIC.- - RSC.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : D (NH)ONOR-[IVS P F AVG].

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

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre Seigneur Honorius Pieux Heureux Auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : [VRBS ROMA].

Reverse description : Rome assise à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.

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

Commentary

Imitation en cuivre comié sur une silique.

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.

HONORIUS Nummus, (PB, Æ 3) VF

HONORIUS Silique, imitation d’époque XF

350.00 €

Full data

HONORIUS Nummus, (PB, Æ 3) XF/VF

brm_463084 - HONORIUS Nummus

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

HONORIUS

(01/22/393-08/15/423)

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