brm_276515 - CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 302-303
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : billon
Millesimal fineness : 50 ‰
Diameter : 28 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 10,48 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et ovale. Beau portrait à l’usure régulière. Patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constance Chlore à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Constantius Nobilissimus Caesar", (Constance noble césar).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SAC MON VRB AVGG ET CAESS NN/ -|*// RT.
Reverse description : Moneta (la Monnaie) debout de face, regardant à gauche, tenant une balance de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : "Sacra Moneta Urbis Augustorum Et Caesarum Nostrorum", (La monnaie sacrée de la ville de nos augustes et de nos césars).
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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