brm_689354 - VALENS Silique

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Price : 150.00 €

Type : Silique

Date: 366-367

Mint name / Town : Constantinople

Metal : silver

Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰

Diameter : 18,5 mm

Orientation dies : 6 h.

Weight : 2,51 g.

Officine: 2e

Coments on the condition:

Monnaie centrée. Joli buste. Revers agréable. Patine grise avec reflets dorés

Catalogue references :

RIC.13 d4 - C.88 var. (4f.) - RSC.88 b (135£) - RC.- - MRK.156 /28 var. (180€)

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N VALENS - P F AVG.

Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Valens à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a).

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Valens pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : VOT/ V// C.B.

Reverse description : Légende en deux lignes dans une couronne.

Reverse translation : “Votis quinquennalibus”, (Vœux pour le cinquième anniversaire).

Commentary

Monnaie montée anciennement. Monture encore visible en partie.

Historical background

VALENS

(03/28/364-08/9/378)

Valens, after having been proclaimed august by his brother, receives the charge of governing the East. Since Decius, he is the first emperor killed in battle by the Goths in Adrianople, August 9, 378.

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brm_689354 - VALENS Silique

Obverse

Reverse

Commentary

Historical background

VALENS

(03/28/364-08/9/378)

Valens, after having been proclaimed august by his brother, receives the charge of governing the East. Since Decius, he is the first emperor killed in battle by the Goths in Adrianople, August 9, 378.

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