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Price : 40.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: avril - fin
Date: 337-338
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 13 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 1,49 g.
Officine: 1ère
Coments on the condition:
Flan court et centré. Usure fine et régulière. Agréable buste au droit. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONS-TANS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans Auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A'b) ; diadème lauré et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constans Pius Augustus”, (Imperator Constans auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLORI-A EXER-CITVS/ (CROISSANT)// PCONST.
Reverse description : Deux soldats debout face à face, casqués et vêtus militairement, tenant chacun une haste et s'appuyant sur un bouclier ; au milieu, une enseigne militaire ornée d'un chrisme.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Exercitus”, (La Gloire de l'armée).
Commentary
Poids léger. Cette émission, frappée après la mort de Constantin II en avril 340 est l’une des premières avec l’ancien nom d’Arles “Arelatum” au lieu de “Constantina” en l’honneur de Constantin II, utilisée de 326 à 340. Ce type est en fait beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Lightweight. This issue, struck after the death of Constantine II in April 340, is one of the first with the ancient name of Arles “Arelatum” instead of “Constantina” in honor of Constantine II, used from 326 to 340. This type is in fact much rarer than general literature suggests.
Lightweight. This issue, struck after the death of Constantine II in April 340, is one of the first with the ancient name of Arles “Arelatum” instead of “Constantina” in honor of Constantine II, used from 326 to 340. This type is in fact much rarer than general literature suggests.
Historical background
CONSTANS
(25/12/335-18/01/350)
Augustus
Constans was born in 320 and received the title of Caesar on December 25, 333. Made august after September 9, 337 with his two other brothers, Constantine II and Constantius II, he soon became angry with his elder brother, who died in April 340. After the death of his brother, Constans recovers the heritage of Constantine II and obtains the charge of the West. A maiorina is struck on the occasion of the 1100th anniversary of Rome in 348, an anniversary recalled by the reverse legend "the Return of Happy Times". Constans is assassinated at the beginning of the year 350.
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