medallion
- Museum number
- 1844,0425.791
- Description
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Silver medallion. (whole)
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Diademed, draped bust (with shoulder of cuirass visible), right, representing Constantius II. (obverse)
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Vows of office within laurel-wreath. (reverse)
- Production date
- 338 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Die-axis: 5 o'clock
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Diameter: 39 millimetres
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Weight: 11.79 grammes (incomplete)
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- Curator's comments
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This piece represents the equivalent of the Constans medallion inv. no. 1844 4-25 786, and records his older brother Constantius II's vows for his last anniversary, the ten-year or decennalia which had actually elasped some years previously. (Constantius II had been Caesar for nine years prior to Constans, whose years of accession were AD 324 and AD 333 respectively). The restatement Constantius II's vows alongside the contempory vows of Constans might possibly have been occasioned by a special coinage issue to celebrate the meeting of the brothers in the summer of AD 338 (see RICVIII, p.341) at the Balkan city of Viminacium.
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For the Trier Neutor hoard see: Gilles, K.-J., Ein weiteres Multiplum aus dem Silberschatz vom Neutor in Trier? in Trierer Petermaennchen 1989, pp. 71-80, this coin = no. 7.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2007 2 Jun-4 Nov, Germany, Trier, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Constantine the Great
- Acquisition date
- 1844
- Acquisition notes
- Devon.I.347.
- Department
- Coins and Medals
- Registration number
- 1844,0425.791
- C&M catalogue number
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RM (BMCRM) (90) (4)
