v09_0647 - CONSTANTIUS II Centenionalis ou Nummus
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 42.69 €
Estimate : 68.60 €
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Starting price : 42.69 €
Estimate : 68.60 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou Nummus
Date: 328
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Jolie patine vert olive foncé. Beau portrait
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL IVL CONSTANTIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constance II à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : "Flavius Iulius Constantius Nobilissimus Cæsar (Flavien Jules Constance très noble César).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS// SMTSB.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de deux tourelles et d'une étoile.
Reverse translation : Providentiæ Cæsarum (À la Providence des césars).
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS II
(8/11/324-3/11/361)
Caesar
Constantius II was born on August 7, 318 in Sirmium. He was raised to the cesarat on November 8, 324 at the age of six. In 337, after the death of his father, it was he who murdered or allowed most of his collateral family, descendants of Constantius Chlorus and Theodora. Only Constance Galle and Julien escape the massacre.
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