v09_0616 - ROMA Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 9 (2000)
Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
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Starting price : 144.83 €
Estimate : 228.67 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 348
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 15 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,75 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Rare combinaison hybride avec un beau portrait. Patine vert foncé / Petite faiblesse de frappe au revers
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : ROMA.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Rome à droite vu de trois quarts en avant (C*).
Obverse translation : (Rome).
Reverse
Reverse legend : P - R.
Reverse description : Mars ou Rome, casqué, vêtu militairement debout de face, la tête tournée à droite, tenant une haste de la main droite et appuyé sur un bouclier de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Populus Romanus", (Le Peuple Romain).
Historical background
ROMA
(330-348)
Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BC according to Varro (Ab Urbe Condita). The city, whose population fluctuated between 400,000 and one million during the High Empire, lost its importance from the second half of the 3rd century. The choice by Constantine of a new capital, from 326, dealt him a fatal blow from which the Urbs would not recover before the Renaissance. The city will still survive for nearly one hundred and fifty years, despite two sacks: those of 410 and 455. Rome is no longer in Rome.
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