HONORIUS, RIC 1206a, Date 394-395 AD, GOLD SOLIDUS Mediolanum, Emperor, Victory, Captive

★ Near Mint State condition - beautiful specimen - rare Mediolanum type - fantastic Honorius portrait style - fantastic details at booth sides - undestroyed Honorius portrait - undestroyed fine detailed reverse presentation - perfectly centered - perfectly full legends at booth sides - full diameter and full weight - beauty golden color toning - a perfectly Honorius from rare Mediolanum mint ★
Flavius Honorius
Reign: Honorius
Mint: Mediolanum (modern Milan)
Date: 394/395 AD
Nominal: Solidus
Material: Gold
Diameter: 21mm
Weight: 4.47g
Reference: Depeyrot 16/2
Reference: RIC X Honorius 1206a
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Obverse: Bust of Honorius, pearl-diademed, draped, cuirassed, right
Inscription: D N HONORIVS P F AVG
Translation: Dominus Noster Honorius Pius Felix Augustus
Translation: Our Lord Honorius, Pious and Blessed August
Reverse: Honorius, draped, cuirassed, standing right, holding standard in right hand and Victory on globe in left hand; spurning seated bound captive with left foot; M-D across fields
Inscription: VICTORIA AVGGG COMOB MD
Translation: Victoria Augustorum, Comitatus Obryziacum, Mediolanum
Translation: Victory of the three Emperors, Comitatensian mint, Mediolanum Mintmark
Comment: Flavius Honorius (born 9 September 384 AD; died 15 August 423 AD in Ravenna) was Western Roman emperor between 395 and 423 AD. Honorius was a son of the Emperor Theodosius I and his first wife Aelia Flacilla. His elder brother was the Eastern Roman Emperor Arcadius, his younger half-sister Galla Placidia. Honorius was married twice, but remained without heirs. First, in 398 AD, he married Maria, the daughter of his cousin Serena and the magister militum (army master) Stilicho. After her death he married her younger sister Thermantia. Thermantia was disowned after the fall of her father and died in 415 AD. Honorius is particularly known to posterity because of a famous anecdote recorded by Procopius of Caesarea, according to which the emperor was more interested in the breeding of his chickens and the well-being of his favourite chicken Roma than in the news of the fall of Rome. This then gave rise to the legend of the chicken-breeding emperor, which was immortalised in a well-known painting by John William Waterhouse and which also became a main motif in the comedy Romulus the Great by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (although there it is transferred to Romulus Augustulus).