v21_3519 - MAXENTIUS Follis ou nummus
MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin 309
Mint name / Town : Toscane et Ombrie, Ostie (Ostia)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,72 g.
Officine: 4e
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait. Flan très large. Patine marron glacé. Frappe un peu molle au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Maxence à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Maxentius Pius Felix Augustus", (L'empereur césar Maxence pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETE-RNITAS - AVG N// MOST.
Reverse description : Castor et Pollux (les Gémeaux ou les Dioscures), surmontés d'une étoile, nus debout face à face, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant chacun un sceptre long et de la main gauche la bride de leurs chevaux ; au centre la louve allaitant Rémus et Romulus.
Reverse legend : D
Reverse translation : "Æternitas Augusti Nostri", (L'Éternité de notre auguste).
Historical background
MAXENTIUS
(28/10/306-28/10/312)
Augustus
Maxentius, son of Maximian, was proclaimed Caesar on October 28, 306 in Rome, then took the title of Filius Augustorum. In 307, he was proclaimed august, controlling Italy and Africa with the help of Maximian. In 308, he lost Africa with the revolt of Alexander. At the conference of Carnuntum, he was declared a public enemy, but managed to stay in Italy until 312, the year of his defeat at Ponte Milvius, at the gates of Rome, where he died by drowning in the Tiber..
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