v08_0585 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 8 (2000)
Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
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Starting price : 68.60 €
Estimate : 114.34 €
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Europe, Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique portrait oriental de Constantin. Très jolie patine vert émeraude / Joli revers avec une représentation inhabituelle du manteau tombant sur l'épaule de Jupiter
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Caesar Flavius Valerius Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus" (L'empereur césar Flavien Valère Constantin pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSER-VATORI AVGG/ -|E// SMHT.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche ; à ses pieds, un aigle tenant une couronne en son bec.
Reverse translation : (À Jupiter le protecteur des augustes).
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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