MONNAIES 21 (2004)
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Starting price : 100.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 317-320
Mint name / Town : Hellespont, Cyzique, (Cyzicus)
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,00 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 5e
Emission: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Beau portrait inhabituel pour Constantin Ier. Exemplaire avec son argenture. Beau revers de haut relief
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTA-NTINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré drapé et cuirassé à gauche, tenant un foudre de la main droite, tenant un globe et un sceptre transversal (B*17).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Constantinus Augustus", (L’empereur Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : IOVI CONS-ERVATORI AVGG/ (COURONNE)|E// SMK.
Reverse description : Jupiter nu debout à gauche, le manteau sur l’épaule, tenant un globe nicéphore de la main droite et un sceptre de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Providentiæ Augustorum", (La Providence des Augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Avec son argenture superficielle. Buste tout à fait inhabituel où l’empereur semble tenir un foudre au lieu de la mappa (linge utilisé pour donner le départ des courses de chevaux dans l’hippodrome). Un seul exemplaire répertorié dans le Roman Imperial Coinage.
Lightweight. With its superficial silver plating. A very unusual bust where the emperor appears to be holding a thunderbolt instead of the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races at the racecourse). Only one example is listed in the Roman Imperial Coinage.
Lightweight. With its superficial silver plating. A very unusual bust where the emperor appears to be holding a thunderbolt instead of the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races at the racecourse). Only one example is listed in the Roman Imperial Coinage.
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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