brm_600385 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 1 450.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2020)
Price : 1 450.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 327-329
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,45 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type monétaire. Très belle tête de Constantin Ier. Revers fantastique. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques dorés. Conserve l’intégralité de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Constantin Ier à droite (O’c); cabochons perlés.
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : D N CONSTANTINI MAX AVG/ VOT/ XXX// SF. ARS.
Reverse description : Couronne de laurier dans laquelle est inscrit VOT/ XXX.
Reverse translation : "Domini Nostri Constantini Maximi Augusti/ Votis Tricennalibus", (À notre seigneur Constantin le grand auguste/ Vœux pour le trentième anniversaire de règne à venir).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle.Rubans de type 2 aux extrémités bouletées. Revers tout à fait exceptionnel et unique dans l’histoire du monnayage de l’atelier d’Arles.
With its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Reverse quite exceptional and unique in the history of the coinage of the Arles mint
With its surface silver plating. Type 2 ribbons with rounded ends. Reverse quite exceptional and unique in the history of the coinage of the Arles mint
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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