Live auction - brm_1058532 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 150 € |
| Price : | 780 € |
| Maximum bid : | 780 € |
| End of the sale : | 21 October 2025 15:13:29 |
| bidders : | 7 bidders |
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 319
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,91 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique monnaie quasi FDC, frappée sur flan idéalement centré et servie d’une belle patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTA-NTINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré drapé et cuirassé à gauche vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant la mappa de la main droite et un globe et un sceptre de la main gauche (B*17).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONS-ERVATORI AVGG/ (PALME)|(DELTA)// SMN.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout de face tourné à gauche, la chlamyde sur l’épaule gauche, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre long de la main gauche ; à ses pieds à gauche, une palme.
Reverse translation : “Iovi Conservatori Augustorum”, (À Jupiter conservateur des augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Très beau buste tout à fait inhabituel où l’empereur tient la mappa (linge utilisé pour donner le départ des courses de chevaux dans l’hippodrome).
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Very beautiful and quite unusual bust where the emperor holds the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races at the racecourse)
Lightweight. With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons. Very beautiful and quite unusual bust where the emperor holds the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races at the racecourse)
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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