v38_1222 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Centenionalis ou nummus
MONNAIES 38 (2009)
Starting price : 80.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 80.00 €
Starting price : 80.00 €
Estimate : 120.00 €
Realised price : 80.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 333-334
Mint name / Town : Viennoise, Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,32 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 2e
Emission: 47e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle pour ce type de monnayage sur un petit flan parfaitement centré des deux côtés. Portrait fantastique. Revers de toute beauté. Magnifique patine gris métallique avec des reflets dorés
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG.
Obverse description : Buste diadémé, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (A’b) ; diadème lauré et gemmé.
Obverse translation : “Constantinus Maximus Augustus”, (Constantin le grand auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS/ (COURONNE, POINTÉE)/.// SCONST.
Reverse description : Deux soldats debout face à face, vêtus militairement, tenant chacun une haste renversée et un bouclier ; au milieu, deux étendards et une palme.
Reverse translation : “Gloria Exercitus”, (La gloire de l’armée).
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Rubans de type 3 aux extrémités bouletées. Ptéryges invisibles. Cabochon carré gemmé. Point de centrage sous la couronne au revers. Ce type semble plus rare que ne le laissent supposer les ouvrages généraux.
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Invisible pteryges. Gemmed square cabochon. Centering point under the crown on the reverse. This type seems rarer than general works suggest
With all of its surface silvering. Type 3 ribbons with rounded ends. Invisible pteryges. Gemmed square cabochon. Centering point under the crown on the reverse. This type seems rarer than general works suggest
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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