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bmv_269629 - VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE Triens à la croix

VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE Triens à la croix XF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2013)
Price : 1 250.00 €
Type : Triens à la croix
Date: Ve siècle
Metal : gold
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,34 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Rare monnaie, frappée sur un flan large et très fin, avec un léger manque de métal entre une et deux heures au droit. Quelques légères déformations sont à signaler, sur la légende et dans les champs
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : DNIA VANTINIANVS PF AVG (SIC).
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé de Valentinien à droite, une fibule sur l’épaule.

Reverse


Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE// CONOB.
Reverse description : Croix dans une couronne ; grènetis.

Commentary


Cette monnaie est imitée sur un triens de Valentinien III (423-455). La légende du droit est une imitation erronée, assez confuse, avec DNIA VANTINIANVS PF AVG. Le D initial est en fait un C rétrograde.

Historical background


VISIGOTHIC KINGDOM - AQUITAINE

(5th-6th century)

The Goths were settled at the mouth of the Vistula in the 1st century AD. They divided into Visigoths (Western Goths) and Ostrogoths (Eastern Goths). On August 9, 378, they crushed the Romans at Adrianople where Valens was killed. Alaric, king of the Visigoths, first besieges Ravenna where Honorius resides and takes Rome in 410. Athaulf, his brother-in-law, succeeds him and marries Galla Placidia, Honorius' sister. Wallia, his brother, founded in 419 the kingdom of the Visigoths of Toulouse which was to last a century. Euric (466-484) adds Spain to his kingdom. Clovis, king of the Franks, crushes Alaric II (484-507) at the battle of Vouillé in 507, destroying the Visigoth kingdom of Toulouse. The Visigoths nevertheless retain Spain and Septimania. The Spanish dynasty will reign until Rodrigue and the invasion of the Arabs in 711. It will take the energy of a Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace, to stop the Muslims in Poitiers in 732.

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