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Live auction - brm_555559 - CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus

CONSTANTIUS I Follis ou nummus AU/AU
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Estimate : 450 €
Price : no bid
Maximum bid : no bid
End of the sale : 03 December 2019 15:15:53
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 300-302
Date: 300 - mi 304
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 28,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 9,72 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un flan légèrement irrégulier, bien centré des deux côtés. Superbe buste, finement détaillé. Joli revers à l’usure régulière. Patine vert foncé
Catalogue references :

Obverse


Obverse legend : CONSTANTIVS NOB C.
Obverse description : Buste lauré consulaire de Constance Ier césar à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant, tenant le scipio (H*2).
Obverse translation : “Constantius Nobilissimus Cæsar”, (Constance très noble césar).

Reverse


Reverse legend : GENIO PO-PVLI ROMANI/ (AUTEL)|A// PLG.
Reverse description : Genius (Génie) debout à gauche, coiffé du modius, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant une patère de la main droite et une corne d'abondance de la main gauche.
Reverse translation : “Genio Populi Romani”, (Au Génie du Peuple romain).

Commentary


Rubans de type 3. Buste consulaire richement décoré avec la “toga palmata” et la “toga picta”.

Historical background


CONSTANTIUS I

(03/1/293-07/25/306)

Caesar

Constantius became Caesar on March 1, 293, at the same time as Galerius. He is the subordinate Caesar to Maximian while his colleague is to Diocletian. It is the Tetrarchy. Constance is attached to the Herculean lineage. He divorces Helen to marry Theodora, Maximian's daughter-in-law, while Galerius marries Galéria Valéria, daughter of Diocletian.

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