brm_326526 - LICINIUS I Centenionalis ou nummus
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Item sold on our e-shop (2014)
Price : 150.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: 320
Mint name / Town : Siscia
Metal : copper
Diameter : 19 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 3,05 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 4e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau portrait de Licinius Ier. Revers inhabituel. Patine noire
Catalogue references :
Obverse
Obverse legend : IMP LI-CINIVS AVG.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Licinius Ier à droite, vu de trois quarts en avant (C*).
Obverse translation : “Imperator Licinius Augustus”, (L’empereur Licinius auguste).
Reverse
Reverse legend : VIRTVS - EXERCIT// VOT/XX/ (CHRISME)|-// (DELTA)SIS*.
Reverse description : Étendard avec deux captifs assis dos à dos.
Reverse translation : “Virtus Exerciti/ Vota/ Vicennalibus”, (La Virilité de l’armée/ Vœux pour le vingtième anniversaire de règne).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Casque et visières décorés. Cuirasse cloutée. Épaulière décorée. Petit chrisme dans le champ à gauche du revers. Un des signes précoces pour le Christianisme. Pour la quatrième officine semble complètement inédit et non recensé.
With its superficial silver plating. Decorated helmet and visors. Studded breastplate. Decorated shoulder guard. Small chrism in the left field of the reverse. One of the early signs of Christianity. For the fourth officina it seems completely unpublished and unrecorded.
With its superficial silver plating. Decorated helmet and visors. Studded breastplate. Decorated shoulder guard. Small chrism in the left field of the reverse. One of the early signs of Christianity. For the fourth officina it seems completely unpublished and unrecorded.
Historical background
LICINIUS I
(11/11/308-09/324)
Licinius I was proclaimed august directly following the conference of Carnuntum, on November 11, 308. In 313, after the rescript of Milan, he married Constantine's half-sister, Constantia. In 316 a first war took place between Licinius and Constantine. It ends with the death of Valens and the signing of a peace between the two augusts. On April 1, 317, three Caesars were created: Crispus, Constantine II and Licinius II. A second war broke out between Constantine and Licinius in 321. It ended with the decisive defeat of Chrysopolis in 324 and the deposition of Licinius, exiled to Thessalonica before being executed the following year..
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