v21_3585 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
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Starting price : 450.00 €
Estimate : 1 000.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 319
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique (Salonique)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,14 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 4e
Emission: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Portrait tout à fait inhabituel pour cette émission. Revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine vert noir avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (C*).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIA - AVGG NN// TS..
Reverse description : Victoire drapée, marchant à gauche, tenant une couronne de la main droite et une palme de la main gauche.
Reverse legend : D.
Reverse translation : “Victoria Augustorum Nostrorum”, (La Victoire de nos augustes).
Commentary
Complètement inédit pour ce type de buste. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. Semble de la plus grande rareté.
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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