Live auction - brm_1153843 - POEMENIUS Double Maiorina
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| Starting price : | 50 € |
| Estimate : | 100 € |
| Price : | 160 € |
| Maximum bid : | 160 € |
| End of the sale : | 25 August 2026 15:59:36 |
| bidders : | 5 bidders |
Type : Double Maiorina
Date: 353
Mint name / Town : Atelier indéterminé
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 4,99 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie agréable malgré des faiblesses. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
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'b).
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SALVS AVG NOSTRI// [...].
Reverse description : Grand chrisme accosté de l'alpha et de l'oméga.
Reverse translation : (La Santé de notre auguste).
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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