brm_219062 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2010)
Price : 25.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 315
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 3,44 g.
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait. Frappe un peu molle au revers. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, avec pan de paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI INVIC-TO COMITI/ TF|*// PLG.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié, 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
Ruban de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière lisses. Ptéryges fines à peine visibles. Au revers les lettres dans le champ TF pourraient être les initiales de “Temporum Felicitas” pour les temps heureux.
Type 3 ribbon with rounded ends. Smooth breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, barely visible pteryges. On the reverse, the letters in the TF field could be the initials of “Temporum Felicitas” for happy times
Type 3 ribbon with rounded ends. Smooth breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin, barely visible pteryges. On the reverse, the letters in the TF field could be the initials of “Temporum Felicitas” for happy times
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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