brm_265175 - LICINIUS I Pseudo-argenteus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 750.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 750.00 €
Type : Pseudo-argenteus
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,86 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Licinius Ier, bien venu à la frappe. Jolie revers de style fin. TRès belle patine noire lissée
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient et de la collection Leo Benz, Lanz, 20 novembre 2000, n° 512
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP LICI-NIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Licinius Ier à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche sur l’épaule gauche (I*31).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Licinius Augustus", (L'empereur Licinius auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VATORI A-VG/ -|-// PTR.
Reverse description : Jupiter assis de face sur un aigle debout à droite, prenant son envol ; Jupiter est nu et tient un foudre de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augusti”, (À Jupiter protecteur de l'auguste).
Commentary
Poids léger. Sans argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum. Plutôt que la mappa, Licinius tient le foudre qui l’assimile à Jupiter et complète la lecture du revers.
Lightweight. No surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Rather than the mappa, Licinius holds the thunderbolt, which equates him with Jupiter and completes the reading on the reverse.
Lightweight. No surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Pteryges invisible under the paludamentum. Rather than the mappa, Licinius holds the thunderbolt, which equates him with Jupiter and completes the reading on the reverse.
Historical background
LICINIUS I
(11/11/308-09/324)
Licinius I was proclaimed august directly following the conference of Carnuntum, on November 11, 308. In 313, after the rescript of Milan, he married Constantine's half-sister, Constantia. In 316 a first war took place between Licinius and Constantine. It ends with the death of Valens and the signing of a peace between the two augusts. On April 1, 317, three Caesars were created: Crispus, Constantine II and Licinius II. A second war broke out between Constantine and Licinius in 321. It ended with the decisive defeat of Chrysopolis in 324 and the deposition of Licinius, exiled to Thessalonica before being executed the following year..
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