brm_588119 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 65.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 318-320
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 3,22 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Beau buste de Constantin Ier. Joli revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
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 : PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG/ -|-// .SMHB.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de trois tourelles.
Reverse translation : "Providentiæ Augustorum", (La Providence des Augustes).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3. Très beau 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). Six rangs verticaux de pierres au revers.
With its superficial silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Very beautiful and quite unusual bust where the emperor seems to be holding a thunderbolt instead of the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races in the racecourse). Six vertical rows of stones on the reverse
With its superficial silver plating. Type 3 ribbons. Very beautiful and quite unusual bust where the emperor seems to be holding a thunderbolt instead of the mappa (cloth used to signal the start of horse races in the racecourse). Six vertical rows of stones on the reverse
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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