Live auction - brm_958790 - ROMA Centenionalis ou nummus
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Live starting : Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: début
Date: 337
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,92 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie sur un flan bien centré, légèrement irrégulier. Superbe revers ainsi qu’un revers bien venu à la frappe. Patine marron
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : VRBS - ROMA.
Obverse description : Buste de Rome casqué et cuirassé à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant (C*1).
Obverse translation : "Urbs Roma", (Ville de Rome).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE/ (CROIX DE SAINT ANDRÉ)// SCONST.
Reverse description : La Louve à gauche allaitant Rémus et Romulus ; au-dessus, deux étoiles.
Commentary
Rare émission avec la croix de saint André qui remplace le chrisme dans la dernière émission de bronze du vivant de Constantin.
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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