MONNAIES 50 (2011)
Starting price : 2 800.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 2 800.00 €
Estimate : 4 500.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Solidus
Date: c. 450-453
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,20 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Portrait de toute beauté. Bien centré au revers. Exemplaire ayant conservé une partie de son brillant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient du stock Bourgey, mars 1963
Obverse
Obverse legend : AEL PVLCH-ERIA AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé et drapé de Pulchérie à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (L’a) couronné par la main de Dieu placée au-dessus de sa tête.
Obverse translation : “Ælia Pulcheria Augusta”, (Aelia Pulcheria augusta).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORI-A AVGGG/ -|* // CONOB.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) drapée, les ailes ouvertes debout à gauche, tenant une longue croix de la main droite.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum”, (La Victoire des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Au droit, petite main semblant sortir du ciel et tenant une petite couronne au-dessus de l’Augusta. Une rayure sur la marque d’exergue au revers.
Lightweight. On the obverse, a small hand seemingly emerging from the sky and holding a small crown above the Augusta. A scratch on the exergue mark on the reverse
Lightweight. On the obverse, a small hand seemingly emerging from the sky and holding a small crown above the Augusta. A scratch on the exergue mark on the reverse
Historical background
PULCHERIA
(+453)
Augusta -sister of Theodosius II
Pulcheria is the daughter of Arcadius and Eudoxia. Born in 399, she was created augusta in 414. She had a strong ascendancy over her brother Theodosius II. After the consecutive death of her parents, in 404 and 408, she became regent of the Eastern Empire, at a time when the Barbarians crossed the limes and ravaged Thrace and the western provinces. Rome is taken in 410. It is she who will be the true monarch throughout the reign of Theodosius II, she again who chooses a wife, Eudocia. After the death of her brother, Pulchérie chooses a successor, Marcien, and marries him, after devoting her existence to chastity. She died in 453, a virgin, leaving her property to the poor.
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