v45_0690 - LICINIUS I Pseudo-argenteus
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
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Starting price : 280.00 €
Estimate : 450.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Pseudo-argenteus
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 250 ‰
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 2,17 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés, légèrement éclaté à 10 heures au droit. Beau portrait de Licinius Ier. Représentation inhabituelle du revers. Patine gris foncé
Catalogue references :
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 CONSERV-ATORI AVG/ -|-// 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 excessivement léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges larges sous le paludamentum. Plutôt que la mappa, Licinius tient le foudre qui l’assimile à Jupiter et complète la lecture du revers.
Excessively light weight. With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Large pteryga under the paludamentum. Rather than the mappa, Licinius holds the thunderbolt which assimilates him to Jupiter and completes the reading on the reverse
Excessively light weight. With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Large pteryga under the paludamentum. Rather than the mappa, Licinius holds the thunderbolt which assimilates him to 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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