brm_974633 - CONSTANS Centenionalis ou nummus
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 337-340
Mint name / Town : Atelier incertain
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,70 g.
Officine: 1ere
Coments on the condition:
Superbe exemplaire, centré des deux côtés. Buste finement détaillé. Joli revers. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse legend : CONST-ANS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constans Auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : "Constans Augustus", (Constans auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS// [...].
Reverse description : Deux soldats debout face à face, vêtus militairement, tenant chacun une haste renversée et un bouclier ; au milieu, un étendard.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Exercitus”, (La gloire de l'armée).
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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