brm_599645 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 318-319
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,80 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince bien centré à l’usure régulière. Sans patine
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANT-INVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant une haste de la main droite et la mappa de la main gauche (D*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Augustus”, (L'empereur Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VICTORIAE LAETAE PRINC PERP/ -|-// BSIS.
Reverse description : Deux Victoires debout, face à face, posant un bouclier sur un cippe sur lequel on lit : VOT/PR.
Reverse translation : “Victoriæ Laetæ Principium Perpetuæ”, (À la victoire heureuse et durable du prince).
Commentary
Poids léger. Casque richement décoré avec deux étoiles à six rais bouletées.
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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