v36_1126 - ZENO tremissis

MONNAIES 36 (2008)
Starting price : 750.00 €
Estimate : 1 200.00 €
Realised price : 750.00 €

Type : tremissis

Date: c. 476-491

Mint name / Town : Italie, Milan

Metal : gold

Millesimal fineness : 1000 ‰

Diameter : 13,5 mm

Orientation dies : 5 h.

Weight : 1,44 g.

Rarity : R3

Coments on the condition:

Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers de très joli style avec une petite faiblesse de frappe sur la couronne

Catalogue references :

RIC.3612 pl. 31 - RC.- - Dep.43 /10 (6 ex.) - LRC. - - MRK.174 /1 (1000€) - MEC.1/-

Obverse

Obverse legend : D N ZENO P-ERPE AVG.

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

Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Zeno Perpetuus Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Zénon perpétuel auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE/ COMOB À L’EXERGUE.

Reverse description : Croix potencée dans une couronne.

Commentary

Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. G. Depeyrot a recensé seulement six tremisses pour ce type.

Historical background

ZENO

(17/11/474-11/04/491)

Second part of reign

Zeno married Ariadne, the daughter of Leo I, around 466. Their son, Leo II, succeeded his grandfather in 474. In fact, it was Zeno who assumed power from February 9 as emperor, before Leo II died on November 17, 474. The following year, he had to face the revolt of Basiliscus and flee Constantinople. Having eliminated Basiliscus and his son in 476, he returned to the capital. A second revolt broke out in 484 with Léonce. It lasts four years. Zeno, hated, died of an epileptic fit in 491. His wife Ariadne married Anastasius.