brm_326524 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 323-324
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,47 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan mince et ovale, irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait consulaire inhabituel. Joli revers. Belle patine vert clair
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANT-INVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, consulaire de Constantin Ier à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, et tenant un sceptre surmonté d'un aigle de la main droite (H*2 var.).
Obverse translation : "Constantinus Augustus", (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS/ VOT/IS/ XX// PLON.
Reverse description : Autel inscrit surmonté d'un globe et de trois étoiles.
Reverse translation : “Beata Tranquillitas/ Votis Vicennalibus”, (L'heureuse Tranquillité/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Poids extrêmement léger. Buste consulaire richement ornementé avec la trabea formée de la toga picta et de la toga palmata. Sur cet exemplaire, nous semblons voir la main gauche. Ce type semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux et n’est pas repris dans le corpus du Docteur Bastien sur les bustes. Semble complètement inédit et non répertorié pour le buste. Au revers sur l’autel, le globe est orné dune bande avec cinq globules et à la base de six globules posés trois par trois en triangle séparés par une ligne médiane qui ne correspond à aucun des 97 globes recensés dans le RMBT, p. 97 pour les globes de l’atelier de Trèves.
Extremely light weight. Richly ornamented consular bust with the trabea formed of the toga picta and the toga palmata. On this example, we seem to see the left hand. This type seems much rarer than general works suggest and is not included in Doctor Bastien's corpus on busts. Seems completely new and not listed for the bust. On the reverse on the altar, the globe is decorated with a band with five globules and at the base with six globules placed three by three in a triangle separated by a median line which does not correspond to any of the 97 globes listed in the RMBT, p. 97 for the globes from the Trier workshop
Extremely light weight. Richly ornamented consular bust with the trabea formed of the toga picta and the toga palmata. On this example, we seem to see the left hand. This type seems much rarer than general works suggest and is not included in Doctor Bastien's corpus on busts. Seems completely new and not listed for the bust. On the reverse on the altar, the globe is decorated with a band with five globules and at the base with six globules placed three by three in a triangle separated by a median line which does not correspond to any of the 97 globes listed in the RMBT, p. 97 for the globes from the Trier workshop
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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