v21_3697 - CONSTANS Argenteus ou silique lourde
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Starting price : 250.00 €
Estimate : 500.00 €
Realised price : 250.00 €
Type : Argenteus ou silique lourde
Date: 347-348
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : silver
Millesimal fineness : 900 ‰
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,92 g.
Rarity : R1
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan large, mais irrégulier. Un petit manque de métal dans le champ du revers sous le coude de la Victoire. Métal légèrement cristallisé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : FL IVL CONS-TANS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (A’a) ; diadème perlé.
Obverse translation : “Flavius Iulius Constans Pius Felix Augustus”, (Flavien Jules Constans pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - DD NN AVGG//TR.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) marchant à gauche, les ailes déployées, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Dominorum Nostrorum Augustorum”, (La Victoire de nos seigneurs les augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger.
Historical background
CONSTANS
(25/12/335-18/01/350)
Augustus
Constans was born in 320 and received the title of Caesar on December 25, 333. Made august after September 9, 337 with his two other brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II, he soon became angry with his elder brother, who died in April 340. After the death of his brother, Constans recovers the heritage of Constantine II and obtains the charge of the West. A maiorina is struck on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of Rome in 348, an anniversary recalled by the reverse legend "the Return of Happy Times". Constans is assassinated at the beginning of the year 350.
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