brm_616514 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin janvier 308 - fin juin 308
Date: 308
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26,5 mm
Orientation dies : 5 h.
Weight : 5,50 g.
Rarity : R2
Coments on the condition:
Flan large et bien centré, éclaté à 9h. Joli revers. Usure régulière. Patine verte
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Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier auguste à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*2).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PRINCIP-I IVV-ENTVTIS/ -|-// PLG.
Reverse description : Constantin Ier, vêtu militairement debout à gauche, tenant dans chaque main une enseigne militaire.
Reverse translation : “Principi Iuventutis” (Au prince de la jeunesse).
Commentary
Poids léger. Césure de revers inhabituelle et non recensée. Rubans de type 3. Ptéryges invisibles sous le paludamentum.
Lightweight. Unusual and unrecorded reverse caesura. Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum
Lightweight. Unusual and unrecorded reverse caesura. Type 3 ribbons. Invisible pteryga under the paludamentum
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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