E-auction 652-667517 - CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus
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Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 299
Mint name / Town : Aquilée
Metal : copper
Diameter : 27,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,59 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Monnaie agréable malgré des concrétions, bien centrée. Patine marron
Obverse
Obverse legend : CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Constance Chlore à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Constantius Nobilissimus Caesar", (Constance Noble César).
Reverse
Reverse legend : GENIO POPV-LI - ROMANI// AQ.
Reverse description : Genius (le Génie) coiffé du modius, debout à gauche, à demi nu, répandant de l'encens d'une patère qu'il tient de la main droite et tenant une corne d'abondance de la gauche ; dans le champ à gauche, un trépied allumé.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : "Genio Populi Romani", (Au Génie du Peuple Romain).
Commentary
Ce type avec le trépied ne se rencontre que pour l’atelier d’Aquilée.
This guy with the tripod is only found in the Aquileia workshop.
This guy with the tripod is only found in the Aquileia workshop.
Historical background
CONSTANTIUS I
(03/1/293-07/25/306)
Augustus
Constantius became Caesar on March 1, 293 at the same time as Galerius. Constance, who became august in 305, went to Brittany to fight the Picts. He died in York as Septimius Severus on July 25, 306. Constantine had had time to join him, despite Galerius' ban. Constantine struck an important coinage of consecration then restitution in his memory.
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