brm_1021627 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis
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Type : Follis
Date: 312
Mint name / Town : Nicomedia
Diameter : 22 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 4,60 g.
Officine: 2e
Coments on the condition:
Flan idéalement centré. Joli portrait au droit. De jolis détails. Patine foncée
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C FL VAL CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constantin Ier à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Flavius Valerius Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L”empereur césar Flavius Valère Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO A-VGVSTI/ -|B // SMN.
Reverse description : Génie nu et tourelé debout à gauche, le manteau sur l'épaule, tenant une patère de la main droite dont le liquide se déverse et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, à ses pieds, un autel allumé.
Reverse translation : “Genio Augusti”, (Au Génie de l'auguste).
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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