brm_885967 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 327-328
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,53 g.
Officine: 2e
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Superbe exemplaire sur un flan idéalement centré des deux côtés. Revers finement détaillé. Très beau portrait de Constantin Ier. Patine marron avec des reflets cuivrés
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 : VIRTV-S AVGG/ S|F// ARLP.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de quatre tourelles et d'une étoile.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Augustorum”, (La Virilité des augustes).
Commentary
Les lettres S-F peuvent se développer par “Sæculi Felicitas” (la Félicité du siècle).
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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