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Type : Solidus
Date: 363-364
Mint name / Town : Antioche
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,42 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 10e
Coments on the condition:
Superbe monnaie, centrée des deux côtés. Très beau revers, finement détaillé. Joli buste de style fin. Patine de collection
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N IOVIAN-VS P E P 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 Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Jovien pieux heureux perpétuel auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRITA-S REI - PVBLICAE/ VOT/ V MVLT/ X// ANTI.
Reverse description : Rome et Constantinople assises de face sur une banquette, tenant un bouclier sur lequel est inscrit : VOT/V/MVLT/X.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Rei Publicæ/ votis quinquennalibus votis decennalibus”, (la Sécurité de la chose publique/ vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le dixième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Les solidi de Jovien étaient très rares et cotaient 100 francs or dans la deuxième édition du Cohen en 1892.
Jovian's solidi were very rare and were valued at 100 gold francs in the second edition of Cohen's dictionary in 1892.
Jovian's solidi were very rare and were valued at 100 gold francs in the second edition of Cohen's dictionary in 1892.
Historical background
JOVIAN
(06/27/363-02/17/364)
Jovian was born in 331 in Singidunum in Moesia. Count of the domestici (Ammianus Marcellinus, History, XXV, 5/4), he succeeded Julian II the Philosopher on June 27, 363. A Christian, he rallied to the Nicene creed and abolished Julian's anti-Christian edicts. Jovian signed peace with the Sassanid king, Sapor II (309-379). He had to abandon Nisibis, Singara and part of Armenia. Jovian retreated with the remains of the army and arrived in Antioch in October 363. He assumed his first consulate on January 1, 364 in the company of his son Flavius Varronianus, a child. He died of asphyxiation by a brazier on February 17, 364 in Dadastana, a small town located between Nicaea and Ancyra. On the following February 26, Valentinian was proclaimed Augustus..
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