brm_348138 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Price : 150.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 312-313
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 23 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,48 g.
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large, bien centré. Beau portrait. Revers inhabituel. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F 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 Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ -|-// RQ.
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire “aquilla” à gauche entre deux enseignes “vexilla”, ornés d’une main et d’une couronne.
Reverse translation : "Senatus Populus Que Romanus Optimo Principi", (Le Sénat et le Peuple romain au meilleur des Princes).
Commentary
Cuirasse et épaulière cloutées. Ptéryges fines. Rubans de type 3.
Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Type 3 ribbons
Studded breastplate and shoulder guard. Thin pteryges. Type 3 ribbons
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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