brm_698249 - ROMULUS Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 310
Mint name / Town : Ostie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 24 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 7,03 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire centré. Usure importante mais régulière. Joli portrait. Patine foncée
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Obverse
Obverse legend : DIVO ROMVLO N V BIS CONS.
Obverse description : Tête nue de Romulus à droite (O°).
Obverse translation : "Divo Romulo Nobilissimus Vir, Bis Consul", (Au divin Romulus, homme très noble, consul pour la seconde fois).
Reverse
Reverse legend : AETERNAE - MEMORIAE/ -|-// MOSTS.
Reverse description : Temple à dôme circulaire, les portes entrouvertes, surmonté d'un aigle debout à droite, tournant la tête à gauche.
Reverse translation : Æternæ Memoriæ”, (À la mémoire éternelle).
Historical background
ROMULUS
(+309)
Maxentius' son - Caesar
Romulus, born in 294, is the son of Maxentius and Valeria Maximilia. Maximien Hercule and Galère are his grandfathers. He was twice consul, in 308 and 309. When he died in 309, Romulus was immediately deified, and Maxentius had a temple built for him on the Sacred Way next to the temple of Faustina..
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