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v25_0474 - POEMENIUS Double maiorina réduite, (MB, Æ 2)

POEMENIUS Double maiorina réduite, (MB, Æ 2) VF

MONNAIES 25 (2006)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 125.00 €

Type : Double maiorina réduite, (MB, Æ 2)

Date: 353

Mint name / Town : Trèves

Metal : copper

Diameter : 23,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 5,50 g.

Rarity : R2

Officine: 1re

Emission: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Flan ovale, irrégulier et échancré. Beau portrait. Patine vert noir

Catalogue references :

C.176 (3f.) - RIC.332 - LRBC.67 - MRK.147 /94 var. - RC.-

Obverse

Obverse legend : [D N CONSTAN]-TIVS P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constance II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a) ; diadème perlé.

Obverse translation : "Dominus Noster Constantius Pius Felix Augustus", (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : SALVS AVG [NOSTRI/]/ TRP*.

Reverse description : Grand chrisme accosté de l'alpha et de l'oméga.

Reverse translation : "Salus Augusti Nostri", (La Santé de notre auguste).

Commentary

Poids léger. Ce type n’a été frappé que pour l’atelier de Trèves au nom de Constance II.

Historical background

POEMENIUS

(353)

Coinage in the name of Constantius II

A revolt occurred in Trier at the beginning of the year 353 against Magnentius and Decency. It was led by Poemenius who minted in the name of Constantius and had double maiorina minted in the type of the chrism accosted by the alpha and the omega which are in Greek the first and last letters of the alphabet and recall the words of the Christ "I am the beginning and I am the end". The revolt was apparently crushed quickly. These coins of the Constance type are therefore very rare. It is interesting to find this law of Constantius, who defended the Arian religious theories, on the reverse of this coin rather favorable to the orthodoxy of the Council of Nicaea (325).

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