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Live auction - brm_403698 - VALENTINIAN III Solidus

VALENTINIAN III Solidus AU
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Estimate : 950 €
Price : 650 €
Maximum bid : 650 €
End of the sale : 27 September 2016 15:02:47
bidders : 1 bidder
Type : Solidus
Date: c. 430-440
Mint name / Town : Constantinople
Metal : gold
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,45 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau buste de Valentinien III avec une usure sur le visage. Joli revers
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : D N VALENTINANVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, casqué et cuirassé de Théodose II de face, tenant de la main droite la haste qui repose sur l'épaule et de la gauche, un bouclier orné d'un cavalier chargeant à droite (N’a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Valentinianus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Valentinien pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : VOT XXX - MVLT XXXXB/ -|*// CONOB.
Reverse description : Constantinople trônant à gauche, le pied gauche posé sur une proue de navire, tenant un globe crucigère de la main droite et un sceptre transversal de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Votis Tricennalibus Multis quadrigennalibus”, (Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le quarante anniversaire).

Commentary


Au revers de ce solidus, les vota ne s’adressent pas à Valentinien III, mais à Théodose II.

Historical background


VALENTINIAN III

(23/10/425-16/03/455)

Born in 419, Valentinian III is the son of Constantius III and Galla Placidia, and the nephew of Honorius. Her mother having become angry with her half-brother, she left Ravenna for Constantinople in order to find refuge with Theodosius II. Upon the death of Honorius in 423, John usurped the throne. It was Theodosius II who allowed his cousin to take possession of his throne two years later. His mother, Galla Placidia, assures the regency in the name of her son. In 437, Valentinian III married Licinia Eudoxia, daughter of Theodosius II. In the West, Valentinian III left power to General Aetius. The latter tries to organize the defense of the West against the thrust of the Germanic tribes at the gates of the Empire. In 451, Aétius won a great victory in the Catalaunian fields, near Châlons-en-Champagne, thanks to the contribution of federated troops, in particular Visigoths. Aetius was finally assassinated in 454. The following year, Valentinian III was in turn eliminated at the instigation of Petronius Maximus, an old senator. The same year, Rome was besieged and taken by the Barbarians for the second time in less than fifty years..

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