v32_0690 - CONSTANS Centenionalis ou nummus, (PB, Æ 4)
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
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Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus, (PB, Æ 4)
Date: 347-348
Mint name / Town : Hellespont, Cyzique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 13,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,71 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage avec un flan un peu court sur la légende de droit. Portrait de qualité exceptionnelle. Revers de style fin. Jolie patine marron brillante
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTA-NS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Constans à droite (O'c) ; diadème perlé et gemmé.
Obverse translation : "Constans Pius Felix Augustus", (Constans pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VOT/ XX/ MVLT/ XXX// SMK.
Reverse description : dans une couronne.
Reverse legend : G.
Reverse translation : "Votis vicennalia multis tricennalia", (Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne et plus pour le trentième anniversaire à venir).
Commentary
Ruban perlé de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées.
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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