v45_0833 - CONSTANS Maiorina
MONNAIES 45 (2010)
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 125.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Maiorina
Date: 349
Mint name / Town : Hellespont, Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,32 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan mince et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait. Revers finement détaillé. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : D N CONSTA-NS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constans à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant un globe de la main droite (A'6a).
Obverse translation : (Notre seigneur Constans pieux et heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FEL TEMP REPA-RATIO/ -|-// SMH.
Reverse description : Soldat casqué, vêtu militairement debout à droite, tenant une haste transversale, sortant un personnage de sa hutte ; derrière un palmier.
Reverse translation : (Le retour des temps heureux).
Commentary
Poids très léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines et tombantes. Globe croiseté.
Very light weight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin, drooping pteryges. Crossed globe
Very light weight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Thin, drooping pteryges. Crossed globe
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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