brm_410928 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: avril - mai
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C 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 Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ -|-// TARL.
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire “aquilla” à gauche entre deux enseignes “vexilla”.
Reverse translation : “Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Le Sénat et le peuple romain au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Avec ce buste, seule la troisième officine est recensée. Type rarissime pour l’atelier d’Arles. Philippe Ferrando n’en recense qu’un seul exemplaire dans la seconde version de son ouvrage. Avant cette parution, ce type était totalement inédit !.
With this bust, only the third pharmacy is listed. Extremely rare type for the Arles workshop. Philippe Ferrando lists only one example in the second version of his work. Before this publication, this type was completely new!
With this bust, only the third pharmacy is listed. Extremely rare type for the Arles workshop. Philippe Ferrando lists only one example in the second version of his work. Before this publication, this type was completely new!
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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