brm_609619 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin 315 - début 316
Date: 315-316
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,40 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan épais bien centré. Beau buste de Constantin Ier. Revers tout à fait exceptionnel. Belle patine marron foncé
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier auguste à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI/ A|S// PLG.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, nu le manteau couvrant les épaules, debout à droite, la tête tournée à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (À notre compagnon Sol invaincu).
Commentary
Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse lisse. Grand pan de paludamentum sur l’épaule gauche. Ptéryges larges et tombantes. Type de Sol qui semble complètement inédit pour l’atelier de Lyon. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés.
Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Smooth breastplate. Large section of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Wide and drooping pteryga. Type of floor which seems completely new for the Lyon workshop. Missing from all works consulted
Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Smooth breastplate. Large section of paludamentum on the left shoulder. Wide and drooping pteryga. Type of floor which seems completely new for the Lyon workshop. Missing from all works consulted
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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