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brm_410928 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus

CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus VF
750.00 €(Approx. 802.50$ | 645.00£)
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: avril - mai
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 22,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 4,79 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure importante mais parfaitement lisible et identifiable. Joli revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet

Obverse


Obverse legend : IMP C CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (B*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse


Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ -|-// TARL.
Reverse description : Aigle légionnaire “aquilla” à gauche entre deux enseignes “vexilla”.
Reverse translation : “Senatus PopulusQue Romanus Optimo Principi”, (Le Sénat et le peuple romain au meilleur des Princes).

Commentary


Avec ce buste, seule la troisième officine est recensée. Type rarissime pour l’atelier d’Arles. Philippe Ferrando n’en recense qu’un seul exemplaire dans la seconde version de son ouvrage. Avant cette parution, ce type était totalement inédit !.

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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