v09_0529 - CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 114.34 €
Starting price : 114.34 €
Estimate : 182.94 €
Realised price : 114.34 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 306
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,97 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait avec une très jolie patine verte / Revers inhabituel
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CONSTANTIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constance Ier Auguste à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Constantius Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Constance pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FIDES - M-I-LITVM// PT.
Reverse description : Fides (la Fidélité) , drapée, assise à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : (La Fidélité des soldats).
Commentary
Poids lourd.
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS I
(03/1/293-07/25/306)
Augustus
Constantius became Caesar on March 1, 293 at the same time as Galerius. Constance, who became august in 305, went to Brittany to fight the Picts. He died in York as Septimius Severus on July 25, 306. Constantine had had time to join him, despite Galerius' ban. Constantine struck an important coinage of consecration then restitution in his memory.
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