brm_248196 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 15.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 328-329
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,07 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan extrêmement mince, large et ovale avec les grènetis visibles. Beau portrait. Usure plus importante au revers. Jolie patine vert olive clair granuleuse
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Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête diadémée de Constantin Ier à droite (O’a), diadème formé d’un triple rang de perles.
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-TIAE AVG/-|-// SMNA.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de deux tourelles ; au milieu, une étoile.
Reverse translation : “Providentiæ Augustorum”, (À la Providence de nos augustes).
Commentary
Poids excessivement léger. L’une des premières apparitions du buste diadémé. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Six rangs verticaux de pierres au revers.
Excessively light weight. One of the earliest appearances of the diademed bust. Type 3 ribbons with ball-shaped ends. Six vertical rows of stones on the reverse.
Excessively light weight. One of the earliest appearances of the diademed bust. Type 3 ribbons with ball-shaped ends. 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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