v55_0343 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 55 (2012)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
Realised price : 120.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 322-324
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,00 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,93 g.
Officine: 1re
Emission: 33e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis visibles. Portrait fantastique, de haut relief. Revers de haut relief. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG/ VOT/./ XX/ -|-// P*AR.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Domini Nostri Constantini Maximi Augusti/ Votis vicennalibus”, (À notre seigneur Constantin très grand auguste, Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Portrait massif très particulier. 81 exemplaires recensés par Philippe Ferrando, mais 66 en musées et seulement quinze sur le marché.
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Very distinctive solid portrait. 81 examples recorded by Philippe Ferrando, but 66 in museums and only fifteen on the market.
Lightweight. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Very distinctive solid portrait. 81 examples recorded by Philippe Ferrando, but 66 in museums and only fifteen on the market.
Historical background
CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT
(07/25/306-05/22/337)
Augustus
Constantine was born in 274, son of Constance Chlore and Helena. He was named Caesar on the death of his father on July 25, 306 and was proclaimed august on December 25, 307. He married Fausta, the daughter of Maximien Hercule, who gave him five children, three of whom were augusts. The first twenty years of his reign are devoted to imposing himself as the main august against Maximian Hercules, Galerius, Maxentius, Maximin II and Licinius. He is recognized as the first Christian emperor, although baptized only on his deathbed on May 22, 337.
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