brm_608177 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 315-316
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 17,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,80 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan à l’usure superficielle. Faiblesse de frappe sur le nez de Constantin Ier. Joli revers. Belle patine marron foncé
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Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : SOLI IN-VI-CTO COMITI/ T|F/ *|-// TARL.
Reverse description : Sol (le Soleil) radié à demi nu, le manteau sur l’épaule, debout à droite, tournée à gauche, levant la main droite et tenant un globe de la gauche.
Reverse translation : “Soli Invicto Comiti”, (Au compagnon le Soleil invincible).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. Au revers, un globule au-dessus du F, dans le champ à droite. P. Ferrando a recensé 56 exemplaires pour ce type dont 19 en musées. Cet exemplaire est illustré dans le mémoire d’Alexis-Michel Schmitt-Cadet.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. On the reverse, a globule above the F, in the field on the right. P. Ferrando identified 56 examples of this type, 19 of which are in museums. This example is illustrated in the memoir of Alexis-Michel Schmitt-Cadet
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. On the reverse, a globule above the F, in the field on the right. P. Ferrando identified 56 examples of this type, 19 of which are in museums. This example is illustrated in the memoir of Alexis-Michel 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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