brm_466710 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Price : 175.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 309-311
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,20 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Coments on the condition:
Magnifique monnaie idéalement centrée avec les grènetis visibles. Buste remarquable et joli revers. Patine grise
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire n°21 du trésor de Chitry
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INV-ICTO COMITI/ T|F// PLN.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié à demi nu, marchant à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (Au compagnon le Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Cette césure au revers semble totalement inédite et est absente notamment des notes de l’ouvrage pourtant récent de Hubert J. Cloke et Lee Toone sur l’atelier de Londres.
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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