brm_600331 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 314-315
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 20,5 mm
Orientation dies : 11 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan large et ovale à l’usure régulière. Patine marron foncé
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Predigree :
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 : GENIO P-OP ROM/ S|F// SARL.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) nu, le manteau sur l’épaule debout à gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d’abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).
Commentary
Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges fines sous le paludamentum. P. Ferrando a recensé 12 exemplaires dont huit en musées. Cet exemplaire est illustré dans le mémoire d’A.-M. Schmitt-Cadet.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. P. Ferrando identified 12 examples, eight of which are in museums. This example is illustrated in the memoir of A.-M. Schmitt-Cadet
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with pelleted ends. Fine pteryges under the paludamentum. P. Ferrando identified 12 examples, eight of which are in museums. This example is illustrated in the memoir of A.-M. 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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