brm_985688 - MAXENTIUS Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 309-312
Mint name / Town : Ostie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 7,52 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan épais, centré. Très beau portrait de Maxence. Usure plus marquée au revers. Patine marron-vert
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/ -|-// MOSTS.
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.
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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