brm_493050 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Ticinum
Metal : billon
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,73 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale, court mais bien centré. Usure régulière sur l’ensemble de la monnaie. Joli revers. Patine gris foncé
Predigree :
Exemplaire n°623 du trésor de Chitry
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré de Constantin Ier à droite, avec cuirasse, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : "Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus", (Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVI-C-TO COMITI// ST.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) debout de face, tourné à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (au compagnon le Soleil).
Commentary
Poids léger. Suite à la restauration de la monnaie, nous pouvons corriger le classement de Vincent Drost, puisque nous voyons désormais qu’il s’agit d’un RIC 131a et non d’un RIC 132 puisque le buste est seulement cuirassé.
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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