brm_600326 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Price : 125.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 313-314
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,02 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante lisible et identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection de P Ferrando et d’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 IN-V-ICTO COMITI/ -|-// 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
Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges fines. P. Ferrando a recensé l’unique exemplaire de sa collection, illustré dans son ouvrage, p.95, n° 318 (revers). Ce type n’est pas repris dans le mémoire d’A-M Schmitt-Cadet.
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges. P. Ferrando has listed the only example in his collection, illustrated in his work, p.95, no. 318 (reverse). This type is not included in the memoir of AM Schmitt-Cadet
Type 3 ribbons. Fine pteryges. P. Ferrando has listed the only example in his collection, illustrated in his work, p.95, no. 318 (reverse). This type is not included in the memoir of AM 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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