brm_1050673 - HONORIUS Solidus
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Type : Solidus
Date: 408-420
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,46 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 9e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie idéalement centrée des deux côtés. Très beau revers. Buste agréable. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : DN HONORI-VS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, diadémé, et cuirassé d’Arcadius de face vu de trois quarts de face à droite, tenant une lance sur l’épaule et un bouclier orné d’un cavalier, terrassant un guerrier (N’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Honorius pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : CONCORDI-A AVGG(THÊTA)/ *|-// CONOB.
Reverse description : Constantinople assise de face, tournée à droite, casquée et drapée, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main gauche et un sceptre long de la main droite, le pied gauche posé sur une proue de navire.
Reverse translation : “Concordia Augustorum”, (la Concorde des deux augustes).
Commentary
Bouclier orné d’un cavalier terrassant un fantassin. Type avec étoile, frappé entre 408 et 420, associant seulement Théodose II et Honorius avec deux G pour la légende de revers.
Shield decorated with a horseman defeating an infantryman. Type with star, struck between 408 and 420, associating only Theodosius II and Honorius with two Gs for the reverse legend
Shield decorated with a horseman defeating an infantryman. Type with star, struck between 408 and 420, associating only Theodosius II and Honorius with two Gs for the reverse legend
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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