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v41_1242 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus

CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus AU
MONNAIES 41 (2009)
Starting price : 95.00 €
Estimate : 150.00 €
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Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 320-321
Mint name / Town : Macédoine, Thessalonique
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,71 g.
Officine: 5e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire parfaitement centré des deux côtés avec les grènetis complets. Très beau portrait. Revers de haut relief. Patine vert olive foncé et sable
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// TSEVI.
Reverse description : Légende dans une couronne de laurier.
Reverse translation : “Domino Nostri Constantini Maximo Augusti/ Vota Vicennalibus”, (À notre Seigneur Constantin le grand auguste/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3. Sur cet exemplaire, la couronne laurée semble doublée par une bandelette de laine (taenia). Au revers, la couronne est ornée d’une étoile à six rais en forme de chrisme primitif.

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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