v28_0428 - JOVIAN Double maiorina ou médaillon, (GB, Æ 1)

AU/XF

MONNAIES 28 (2007)
Starting price : 380.00 €
Estimate : 650.00 €
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Type : Double maiorina ou médaillon, (GB, Æ 1)

Date: 363-364

Mint name / Town : Syrie, Antioche

Metal : copper

Diameter : 28,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 8,02 g.

Rarity : R2

Officine: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Très beau portrait. Magnifique patine vert sable. Le champ du revers a été légèrement nettoyé

Catalogue references :

C.22 (30f.) - RIC.228 var. - LRBC.2645 - RC.4085 (350£)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IOVIANV-S P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Jovien à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.

Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Iovianus Pius Felix Augustus" (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux et heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORIA - ROMANORVM/ -|-// ANTA.

Reverse description : Jovien debout de face, la tête tournée à droite, vêtu militairement, tenant le labarum chrismé de la main droite et un globe nicéphore de la gauche.

Reverse legend : D.

Reverse translation : “Victoria Romanorum”, (La Victoire des Romains).

Commentary

Poids léger. Ce type de double maiorina est beaucoup plus rare pour l’atelier d’Antioche.

Historical background

JOVIAN

(06/27/363-02/17/364)

Jovian was born in 331 at Singidunum in Moesia. Count of domestici (Ammian Marcellin, History, XXV, 5/4), he succeeded Julian II the Philosopher on June 27, 363. Christian, he rallied to the Nicene creed and abolished Julian's anti-Christian edicts. Jovian signs peace with the Sassanid king, Sapor II (309-379). He must abandon Nisibis, Singara and part of Armenia. Jovian retired with the remnants of the army and arrived in Antioch in October 363. He assumed his first consulship on January 1, 364 in the company of his son Flavius Varronianus, a child. He died of asphyxiation by a brazier on February 17, 363 in Dadastana, a small town located between Nicaea and Ancyra. The following February 26, Valentinian was proclaimed august.

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v28_0428 - JOVIAN Double maiorina ou médaillon, (GB, Æ 1)

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

JOVIAN

(06/27/363-02/17/364)

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