brm_231401 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 317-318
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,07 g.
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Joli revers. Magnifique patine vert olive profond et lissée
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG (O*).
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste.
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONSERVATORI AVGG/ -|-// .TS.A..
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un aigle.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum Nostrorum”, (À Jupiter protecteur de nos augustes).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3. Portrait stylisé.
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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