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Live auction - brm_736466 - LIBIUS SEVERUS Solidus

LIBIUS SEVERUS Solidus MS
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Estimate : 6 000 €
Price : 3 200 €
Maximum bid : 6 000 €
End of the sale : 07 June 2022 15:46:20
bidders : 2 bidders
Type : Solidus
Date: c. 461-465
Mint name / Town : Toulouse
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,32 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté. Revers finement détaillé. Cassure de coin au revers. Patine de collection

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N LIBIVS SEVE-RVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Libius Sévérus à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'c) ; diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Libius Severus Pius Felix Augustus” (Notre seigneur Libius Severus pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGGG/ R|A// COMOB.
Reverse description : Libius Sévérus diadémé, vêtu militairement debout de face, tenant une longue croix de la main droite et une globe nicéphore de la main gauche ; le pied droit posé sur un captif serpentiforme, dont seule la tête est visible.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum” (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary


Exemplaire monté anciennement. Ce type semble bien être frappé au nom de Libius Severus par les Wisigoths, peut-être à Toulouse ? La fabrication pourrait être postérieure au règne de Libius Severus, sous le roi Wisigoth Euric (466-484) qui règne sur l’Aquitaine et dont la capitale se trouve à Toulouse.

Historical background


LIBIUS SEVERUS

(19/11/461-25/09/465)

Autonumous coinage of Wisigoth for Tolosa

Libius Severus succeeded Majorian and was proclaimed emperor at the instigation of Ricimer on November 19, 461. The reality of power was in fact in the hands of Ricimer. Libius Sévérus disappears from the political scene four years later, perhaps liquidated by his boss. The West will go almost two years without a titular emperor.

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