brm_410933 - CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: avril - mai
Date: 313
Mint name / Town : Arles
Metal : copper
Diameter : 21 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,72 g.
Rarity : INÉDIT
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire au flan concrétionné mais avec un beau portrait et un joli revers parfaitement lisible. Patine vert foncé
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP C CONSTANTINVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Buste lauré, drapé et cuirassé de Constantin Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en arrière.
Obverse translation : “Imperator Cæsar Constantinus Pius Felix Augustus”, (L’empereur césar Constantin pieux heureux auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI/ -|-// PARL.
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
Poids léger. Type totalement inédit qui n’est pas connu avec ce buste ! Monnaie absente de tous les ouvrages de référence, notamment le Ferrando. Monnaie de la plus grande rareté.
Lightweight. Totally new type which is not known with this bust! coin absent from all reference works, notably the Ferrando. coin of the greatest rarity
Lightweight. Totally new type which is not known with this bust! coin absent from all reference works, notably the Ferrando. coin of the greatest rarity
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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