brm_588560 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
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Price : 65.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 324-325
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,51 g.
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan bien centré. Belle tête de Constantin Ier. Joli revers. Belle patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINVS AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Augustus”, (Constantin auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : PROVIDEN-TIAE AVGG// SMN.
Reverse description : Porte de camp surmontée de deux tourelles ; au milieu, une étoile.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : “Providentiæ Augustorum”, (À la Providence des augustes).
Commentary
Poids très léger. L’une des dernières apparitions du buste lauré pour Constantin Ier. Rubans de type 2. Sur cet exemplaire, entre les lauriers, on semble deviner la tainia (bandeau). Six rangs verticaux au revers.
Very light weight. One of the last appearances of the laureate bust for Constantine I. Type 2 ribbons. On this example, between the laurels, one seems to make out the tainia (band). Six vertical rows on the reverse
Very light weight. One of the last appearances of the laureate bust for Constantine I. Type 2 ribbons. On this example, between the laurels, one seems to make out the tainia (band). Six vertical rows on the reverse
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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