brm_600381 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: fin 324 - début 325
Date: 324-325
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,88 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau buste de Constantin Ier. Revers de style particulier. Patine vert foncé
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Constantinus Augustus", (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG/ -|-// P*AR.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de deux tours ; au-dessus, une étoile.
Reverse translation : “Providentiæ Augustorum”, (À la Providence des augustes).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Porte étroite. Sept rangs verticaux de pierres au revers dans la porte. Tourelles pointées. Étoile à huit rais. Ce type de buste semble beaucoup plus rare que la tête nue. P. Ferrando a recensé 6 exemplaires dont deux en musées.
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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