v18_0711 - CONSTANS Demi-maiorina
MONNAIES 18 (2003)
Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
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Starting price : 50.00 €
Estimate : 100.00 €
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Type : Demi-maiorina
Date: 348-350
Mint name / Town : Savie, Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,12 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique patine vert jade. Revers inhabituel de beau style avec une faiblesse de frappe. Très beau portrait
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'a).
Obverse translation : “Dominus Noster Constans Pius Felix Augustus”, (Notre seigneur Constans pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP REPARATIO// GSIS.
Reverse description : Phénix debout à droite, la tête dans un nimbe radié sur un bûcher pyramidal.
Reverse translation : “Felicitas Temporum Reparatio”, (Le retour des temps heureux).
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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