v41_1213 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
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Starting price : 75.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 2e moitié de 315 - début 316
Date: 315-316
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,85 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Emission: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais, bien centré. Beau portrait de haut relief. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine marron glacé avec des reflets métalliques
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INV-I-CTO COMITI/ S|F// QARL.
Reverse description : Sol (Le Soleil) radié à demi nu, debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (Au Compagnon le Soleil Invincible).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
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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