brm_600285 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 314-315
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,10 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et épais bien centré. Beau buste de Constantin Ier. Usure superficielle au revers. Patine grise avec des reflets métalliques
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INV-I-CTO COMITI/ S|F// SARL.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié à demi nu, le manteau sur l’épaule, debout à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (Au compagnon le Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Poids très lourd. Avec son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Égide posée sur la cuirasse lisse. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges fines. P. Ferrando a recensé 14 exemplaires dont dix en musées. Traces de frappe incuse au revers. Cet exemplaire est illustré dans le mémoire d’A.-M. Schmitt-Cadet.
Very heavy weight. With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Aegis placed on the smooth breastplate. Studded shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. P. Ferrando identified 14 examples, ten of which are in museums. Traces of incuse strike on the reverse. This example is illustrated in the memoir of A.-M. Schmitt-Cadet
Very heavy weight. With its superficial silvering. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Aegis placed on the smooth breastplate. Studded shoulder pad. Fine pteryga. P. Ferrando identified 14 examples, ten of which are in museums. Traces of incuse strike on the reverse. This example is illustrated in the memoir of A.-M. Schmitt-Cadet
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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