v32_0603 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
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Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 320
Mint name / Town : Savie, Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 8 h.
Weight : 2,28 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 12e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage. Portrait magnifique. Revers finement détaillé où même les têtes des barbares sont visibles. Patine grise avec des reflets mordorés, légèrement tachée au revers. A conservé son brillant de frappe et son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTA-NTINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant, le casque orné d'une palmette (C*6).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - EXERCIT/S|F/ -|HL// BSIS (CROISSANT).
Reverse description : Étendard inscrit VOT//XX entre deux captifs assis dos à dos.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Exerciti”, (La Virilité de l’armée).
Commentary
Imitation ? Poids extrêmement léger. Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque et visière cloutées. Couvre nuque orné de quatre globules. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines.
Imitation? Extremely lightweight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded helmet and visor. Neck guard decorated with four globules. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges
Imitation? Extremely lightweight. With all its surface silver plating. Studded helmet and visor. Neck guard decorated with four globules. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges
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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