brm_273793 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 110.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 320
Mint name / Town : Thessalonica
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,19 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan ovale bien centré des deux côtés. Très beau portrait de Constantin Ier particulier. Joli revers de style fin. Patine marron foncé, légèrement granuleuse
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// TS(GAMMA)VI.
Reverse description : Légende en deux lignes dans une couronne.
Reverse translation : “Domino Nostri Constantini Maximo Augusti/ Vota Vicennalibus”, (À notre Seigneur Constantin le plus grand auguste/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3. Sur cet exemplaire, la couronne laurée semble doublée par une bandelette de laine (taenia) et elle ressemble plus à un diadème qu’à une couronne laurée. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
Ribbons of type 3. In this example, the laureate crown seems to be lined with a strip of wool (taenia) and it looks more like a diadem than a laureate crown. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
Ribbons of type 3. In this example, the laureate crown seems to be lined with a strip of wool (taenia) and it looks more like a diadem than a laureate crown. This type seems rarer than general works suggest.
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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