Live auction - brm_476993 - CONSTANTIUS I Aurelianus
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| Estimate : | 250 € |
| Price : | no bid |
| Maximum bid : | no bid |
| End of the sale : | 10 April 2018 15:21:37 |
Type : Aurelianus
Date: 11-12/293
Date: 293
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,8 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Beau buste de Constance Chlore. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine gris foncé avec des reflets dorés. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection L. P
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste radié, drapé et cuirassé de Constance Ier césar à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A).
Obverse translation : “Flavius Valerius Constantius Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Flavien Valère Constance très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-T DEOR/ -|-//II.
Reverse description : Providentia (la Providence) assise à gauche, les jambes croisées, tenant un sceptre court placé au-dessus d'un globe de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Providentia Deorum”, (La Providence divine).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS I
(03/1/293-07/25/306)
Caesar
Constantius became Caesar on March 1, 293, at the same time as Galerius. He is the Caesar subordinate to Maximian while his colleague is to Diocletian. This is Tetrarchy. Constance is linked to Herculean parentage. He divorces Helen to marry Theodora, Maximian's daughter-in-law, while Galerius marries Galéria Valéria, daughter of Diocletian1/03/293-1/05/305.
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