v29_0522 - JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
MONNAIES 29 (2007)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
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Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 380.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Double maiorina, (GB, Æ 1)
Date: 363
Mint name / Town : Bithynie, Nicomédie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,03 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan très large et complet des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel. Joli revers de style fin. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N FL CL IVLI-ANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste barbu, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Julien II auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Flavius Claudius Iulianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Flavien Claude Julien pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SECVRITAS REI PVB// (PALME)NIKA(PALME).
Reverse description : Taureau passant à droite surmonté de deux étoiles.
Reverse translation : “Securitas Rei Publicæ”, (La Sécurité de la République).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sur cet exemplaire au revers, le taureau est orné d’un œil central (cyclopéen). Rubans de type 3.
Lightweight. On this example, the bull is adorned with a central (cyclopean) eye on the reverse. Type 3 ribbons
Lightweight. On this example, the bull is adorned with a central (cyclopean) eye on the reverse. Type 3 ribbons
Historical background
JULIAN II THE PHILOSOPHER
(6/11/355-26/06/363)
Augustus
Julien II, Caesar in 355, was proclaimed august in Paris in February 360. After the death of Constantius II, in November 361, he remained sole master of the empire. Installed in Antioch at the beginning of 363 where he wrote the Misopogon (Of those who are against the beard - because he wore the beard of the philosophers), he abjured Christianity by trying to create a pagan syncretism. This policy failed and did not survive the emperor who died on June 26, 363, killed or assassinated, while he had begun a brilliant campaign against the Sassanids..
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