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brm_431208 - MAXENTIUS Follis ou nummus

MAXENTIUS Follis ou nummus VF
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Item sold on our e-shop (2018)
Price : 700.00 €
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: 310-311
Mint name / Town : Roma
Metal : copper
Diameter : 25 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 5,96 g.
Rarity : R3
Officine: 3e
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire à l’usure très importante mais parfaitement identifiable. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
RIC.216 corr. - C.59 (40 f.) - Drost100 c (5 ex.)

Obverse

Obverse legend : IMP C MAXENTIVS P F AVG.
Obverse description : Tête laurée de Maxence à droite (O*).
Obverse translation : "Imperator Cæsar Maxentius Pius Felix Augustus", (L’empereur césar Maxence pieux heureux auguste).

Reverse

Reverse legend : FEL PROCES - CONS III AVG N/ -|-// RBT.
Reverse description : Maxence debout dans un char à six chevaux, vu de face.
Reverse translation : “Felix Processus Consulatu tertium Augusti Nostri”, (La procession réussie pour l’installation au troisième consulat de notre auguste).

Commentary

Revers rarissime et exceptionnel que nous présentons pour la première fois à la vente !.

Historical background

MAXENTIUS

(28/10/306-28/10/312)

Augustus

Maxentius, son of Maximian, was proclaimed Caesar on October 28, 306 in Rome, then took the title of Filius Augustorum. In 307, he was proclaimed august, controlling Italy and Africa with the help of Maximian. In 308, he lost Africa with the revolt of Alexander. At the conference of Carnuntum, he was declared a public enemy, but managed to stay in Italy until 312, the year of his defeat at Ponte Milvius, at the gates of Rome, where he died by drowning in the Tiber..

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