brm_410924 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Price : 700.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: avril - mai
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,62 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, parfaitement centré. usure régulière avec un très beau revers. Jolie patine vert 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, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ -|-// PARL.
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
Type rarissime pour l’atelier d’Arles. Philippe Ferrando n’en recense que 5 exemplaires, tous en musée. C’est le seul exemplaire connu en collection privée !.
An extremely rare type for the Arles workshop. Philippe Ferrando lists only five examples, all in museums. This is the only known example in a private collection!
An extremely rare type for the Arles workshop. Philippe Ferrando lists only five examples, all in museums. This is the only known example in a private collection!
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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