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v32_0670 - CONSTANTINE II Centenionalis ou nummus, imitation ?

CONSTANTINE II Centenionalis ou nummus, imitation ? AU
MONNAIES 32 (2007)
Starting price : 145.00 €
Estimate : 200.00 €
unsold lot
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus, imitation ?
Date: 326
Mint name / Town : Émilie, Ticinum
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,77 g.
Rarity : UNIQUE
Officine: 3e
Emission: 16e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait inhabituel de Cosntantin II. Revers magnifique. Patine noire lissée
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CONSTANTINVS IVN N C.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et drapé de Constantin II césar à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière (A*21).
Obverse translation : "Constantinus Iunior Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Constantin le Jeune très noble césar).

Reverse


Reverse legend : PROVIDE-NTIAE CAE/ -|-// P(CROISSANT)T.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de deux tourelles, au milieu, une étoile à huit rais.
Reverse translation : “Providentiæ Cæsarum”, (À la Providence des césars).

Commentary


Poids léger. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Portrait de Constantin II césar tout à fait inhabituel. Complètement inédit et non répertorié. Manque à tous les ouvrages consultés. De la plus insigne rareté. Sommes-nous en présence d’une monnaie hybride ou d’une imitation. La monnaie semble de trop bon style pour être une imitation. Les légendes de droit et de revers ainsi que les césures sont inédites pour l’atelier de Ticinum.
Lightweight. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. A highly unusual portrait of Constantine II Caesar. Completely unpublished and unlisted. Missing from all consulted works. Extremely rare. Are we in the presence of a hybrid coin or an imitation? The coin appears to be in too good a style to be an imitation. The obverse and reverse legends, as well as the caesurae, are unpublished for the Ticinum mint.

Historical background


CONSTANTINE II

(1/03/317-04/340)

Caesar

Born in February 317 according to the most recent chronology, Constantine the Younger receives on coins the title of Caesar like his half-brother Crispus and his cousin Licinius, as well as the title of Prince of Youth. Constantine II is the eldest son of Constantine I and Fausta. In September 337, he received the "pars occidentalis" from the Empire with subjection to his brother Constans, Constantius II having the "pars orientalis". Very quickly, Constantin and Constans fall out. The eldest is eliminated in April 340.

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