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| Estimate : | 80 € |
| Price : | 40 € |
| Maximum bid : | 40 € |
| End of the sale : | 13 January 2026 15:52:59 |
| bidders : | 1 bidder |
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 330-333
Mint name / Town : Héraclée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 18,5 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 2,38 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire de qualité exceptionnelle sur un petit flan ovale, parfaitement centré avec les grènetis visibles. Très beau portrait. Joli revers de style fin bien venu à la frappe. Magnifique patine grise avec des reflets métalliques. Conserve la plus grande partie de son brillant de frappe et de son coupant d’origine
Catalogue references :
Predigree :
Exemplaire provenant de la collection A-M Schmitt-Cadet
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTAN-TINOPOLI.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et lauré de Constantinople à gauche, avec cuirasse et paludamentum, vu de trois quarts en avant, avec le sceptre sur l'épaule (D*2).
Obverse translation : “Constantinopoli”, (À Constantinople).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE// .SMH.
Reverse description : Victoria (la Victoire) debout de face, tournée à gauche, sur une proue de navire, les ailes déployées, tenant un sceptre transversal de la main droite et appuyée sur un bouclier de la main gauche .
Reverse legend : D.
Commentary
Avec l’intégralité de son argenture superficielle. Casque lisse. Cuirasse décorée. Sceptre bouleté.
With all of its surface silvering. Smooth helmet. Decorated breastplate. Balled Scepter
With all of its surface silvering. Smooth helmet. Decorated breastplate. Balled Scepter
Historical background
CONSTANTINOPOLIS
(330-348)
After the capture of Rome on October 28, 312, Constantine did not stay in the capital. He moved to Arles, which almost became the new capital of the Empire. After 324 and the victory over Licinius, Constantine decided to build a new capital on the borders of Europe and Asia, on the banks of the Bosphorus, resurrecting ancient Byzantium. Rome is already no longer in Rome and Constantinople has not yet been born. Constantin dedicates his new Christian capital in May 330. It will be the new Rome. The old senatorial aristocracy never forgives him. The end of Rome, if not the Roman Empire, has just begun.
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