v09_0688 - POEMENIUS Double maiorina

MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 182.94 €
Estimate : 335.39 €
Realised price : 182.94 €

Type : Double maiorina

Date: 353

Mint name / Town : Trèves

Metal : copper

Diameter : 24,5 mm

Orientation dies : 12 h.

Weight : 7,51 g.

Rarity : R2

Officine: 1re

Coments on the condition:

Flan court et irrégulier sur la tranche. Beau portrait. Belle patine vert d'eau

Catalogue references :

C.176 (3f.) - RIC. 1-2/332 - LRBC.67

Predigree :

Cet exemplaire vient de MONNAIES I, 28 décembre 1996, n° 238

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).

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 lourd.
Heavy weight

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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