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Live auction - brm_529991 - VALENS Solidus

VALENS Solidus MS
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Estimate : 900 €
Price : 858 €
Maximum bid : 858 €
End of the sale : 04 June 2019 15:22:51
bidders : 9 bidders
Type : Solidus
Date: 364
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : gold
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique exemplaire sur flan large et idéalement centré des deux côtés. Buste de toute beauté ainsi qu’un superbe revers finement détaillé. Malgré un flan voilé, la monnaie conserve une large partie de son brillant de frappe
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N VALEN-S P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Valens à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valens Pius Felix Augustus” (Notre seigneur Valens pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VICTOR-IA AVGG/./ -|- // SMTES.
Reverse description : Valens et Valentinien Ier assis tous les deux de face sur un banc, couronnés et drapés, tenant ensemble un globe ; derrière eux, la Victoire debout de face, les ailes ouvertes .
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum” (La Victoire des augustes).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.

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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