brm_665697 - CONSTANTIUS I Quart de follis ou quart de nummus
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Type : Quart de follis ou quart de nummus
Date: 305
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 1,69 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie centrée à l’usure régulière. Joli portrait. Patine vert foncé
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Predigree :
Exemplaire de la collection Aymé Cornu
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constance Ier auguste à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Constantius Augustus”, (Constance auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POP-VLI ROMANI/ -|-// SIS.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie du Peuple Romain) debout à gauche nu, le manteau pendant sur l'épaule, tenant de la main gauche une corne d'abondance et de la main droite une patère.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 2.
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS I
(03/1/293-07/25/306)
Augustus
Constantius became Caesar on March 1, 293 at the same time as Galerius. Constance, who became august in 305, went to Brittany to fight the Picts. He died in York as Septimius Severus on July 25, 306. Constantine had had time to join him, despite Galerius' ban. Constantine struck an important coinage of consecration then restitution in his memory.
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