v32_0613 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
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Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 324
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,28 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 14e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG/ */VOT/ XX// TSAVI.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse translation : “Domino Nostri Constantini Maximo Augusti/ Vota Vicennalibus”, (À notre Seigneur Constantin le grand auguste/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Sur cet exemplaire, la couronne laurée semble doublée par une bandelette de laine (taenia).
Historical background
CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT
(07/25/306-05/22/337)
Augustus
Constantine was born in 274, son of Constance Chlore and Helena. He was named Caesar on the death of his father on July 25, 306 and was proclaimed august on December 25, 307. He married Fausta, the daughter of Maximien Hercule, who gave him five children, three of whom were augusts. The first twenty years of his reign are devoted to imposing himself as the main august against Maximian Hercules, Galerius, Maxentius, Maximin II and Licinius. He is recognized as the first Christian emperor, although baptized only on his deathbed on May 22, 337.
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