Live auction - brm_704317 - MAJORIAN Demi-silique

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XF/AU

Estimate :	1 500 €
Price :	820 €
Maximum bid :	2 558 €
End of the sale :	07 December 2021 15:26:30
bidders :	2 bidders

Type : Demi-silique

Date: c. 457-461

Mint name / Town : Gaule

Metal : silver

Diameter : 10 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 0,44 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie sur un flan irrégulier, centré. Très joli revers. Métal légèrement piqué au droit mais buste agréable. Patine grise

Catalogue references :

C.- - RIC.2650 (R4) - RCV.21592 (6500$) - MRK.194 /5 (8000€) - LRC. - - MEC.1/ - RSC.8 b (2750£)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N IVL MAIORIANVS.

Obverse description : Buste casqué, diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Majorien à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, lance pointée en avant (D’7).

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Iulius Maiorianus” (Notre seigneur Jules Majorien).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VICTORIA AVGG.

Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée debout à gauche, tenant une longue croix.

Historical background

MAJORIAN

(28/12/457 - 2/08/461)

Majorien is a high-ranking officer, collaborator of Aetius. He was recalled to court after the latter's assassination in 454 as Count of Domestics. Majorian is expected to succeed Valentinian III in 455, but it is Petronius Maximus who ascends the throne, then Avitus. Marcian dies at the beginning of the year 457. Ricimer becomes patrician on February 28, 457 and Majorien "magister militum". Majorien is proclaimed on April 1st, but is definitively recognized only on December 28th, 457 by Léon Ier, new emperor of the East. After a disastrous campaign against the Vandals in 460, he was deposed the following year and executed by Ricimer.