brm_863585 - CONSTANS Centenionalis ou nummus
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 337-338
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 14 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,16 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et centré. Superbe buste de Constans au droit, très bien venu à la frappe. Patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANS - P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'b) ; diadème lauré et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constans Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constans pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS/ Y// PLC.
Reverse description : Deux soldats debout face à face, casqués et vêtus militairement, tenant chacun une haste et s'appuyant sur un bouclier ; au milieu, un vexillum orné d'un chrisme.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Exercitus”, (La Gloire de l'Armée).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux. C’est la première fois que nous proposons ce type à la vente.
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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