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Siliqua - Magnus Maximus VIRTVS ROMANORVM, Aquileia
| Uitgever | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Jaar | 387-388 |
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| Waarde | Siliqua (1⁄24) |
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| Beschrijving voorzijde | Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Magnus Maximus facing right, wearing a beaded diadem and paludamentum fastened at the shoulder with a brooch. The emperor's features are rendered in the late antique portrait style characteristic of the Theodosian period, with a short beard and stylized hair visible beneath the diadem. The bust is shown in three-quarter view with the drape of the paludamentum visible at the truncation. The circumferential legend reads D N MAG MAX-IMVS P F AVG, distributed around the obverse field. |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | D N MAG MAX-IMVS P F AVG (Translation: Our lord Magnus Maximus, pious and blessed emperor.) |
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Magnus Maximus seized the western throne in 383 by crossing from Britain into Gaul and forcing Gratian's assassination at Lyon. By 387 he had pushed into Italy itself, driving the legitimate emperor Valentinian II to flee east and seek the protection of Theodosius I. These siliquae from Aquileia belong to that brief, aggressive occupation — coins struck in a mint that had just changed hands by force, for a ruler whose legitimacy Theodosius was already preparing to destroy. Within months, Maximus was dead, executed after his defeat at the Battle of the Save in 388.