brm_326016 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 180.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Londres
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,35 g.
Rarity : R3
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire idéalement centré sur un flan ovale. Usure régulière avec un beau revers inhabituel. Patine marron
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Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite drapé sur l’épaule, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*01).
Obverse translation : "Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus", (Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : FELICIT-A-S AVGG NN/ *|-// PLN.
Reverse description : Rome drapée et casquée, assise à gauche, tenant une branche d’olivier de la main droite le vée et un globe de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : "Felicitas Augustorum Nostrorum", (La Félicité de nos augustes).
Commentary
Poids léger. Type parmi les plus rares du monnayage de Constantin Ier ! Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Cuirasse et épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges. Émission frappée en 313 après la réduction au 1/96 L. signalé par H. Huvelin, op. cit. p. 49 et pas repris dans le RIC. VII.
Lightweight. One of the rarest types in the coinage of Constantine I! Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Issue struck in 313 after the reduction to 1/96 L. reported by H. Huvelin, op. cit. p. 49 and not included in the RIC. VII
Lightweight. One of the rarest types in the coinage of Constantine I! Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Wide pteryges. Issue struck in 313 after the reduction to 1/96 L. reported by H. Huvelin, op. cit. p. 49 and not included in the RIC. VII
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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