brm_221563 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 25.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 332
Mint name / Town : Trèves
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,41 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Jolie patine vert olive foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Maximus Augustus”, (Constantin le très Grand Auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS/ -|-// TR.P.
Reverse description : Deux soldats debout face à face, vêtus militairement, tenant chacun une haste renversée et s’appuyant sur un bouclier ; au milieu, deux enseignes militaires.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Exercitus”, (La gloire de l’armée).
Commentary
Poids lourd. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. La couronne de laurier est très particulière (signalée dans le LRBC, N) ornée de rosettes comme les diadèmes. C’est la première forme d’une couronne composite. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum.
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. The laurel wreath is very distinctive (reported in the LRBC, N) adorned with rosettes like diadems. This is the earliest form of a composite crown. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum
Heavyweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. The laurel wreath is very distinctive (reported in the LRBC, N) adorned with rosettes like diadems. This is the earliest form of a composite crown. Thin pteryges under the paludamentum
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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