Live auction - brm_997552 - CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus
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Live starting : Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-301
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 29,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 8,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée. Buste agréable. Usure régulière. Patine foncée
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL VAL CONSTANTIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constance Ier césar à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Flavius Valerius Constantius Nobilissimus Cæsar", (Flavien Valère Constance très noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : MONETA. S. AV-GG ET CAESS NN/ -|* //BTR.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) debout à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Moneta Sacra Augustorum et Cæsarum Nostrorum", (Monnaie sacrée de nos augustes et de nos césars).
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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