brm_354592 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 100.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 312-313
Mint name / Town : Ostie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,24 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire frappé sur un flan large, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait de Constantin Ier. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
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.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POP ROM// MOSTQ.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) debout à gauche, nu, coiffé du modius, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au génie du peuple romain).
Commentary
Officine que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente ! Semble beaucoup plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
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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