v31_0593 - MAXENTIUS Follis
MONNAIES 31 (2007)
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 151.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Starting price : 120.00 €
Estimate : 180.00 €
Realised price : 151.00 €
Number of bids : 2
Maximum bid : 165.00 €
Type : Follis
Date: fin
Date: 309
Mint name / Town : Toscane et Ombrie, Ostie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 12 h.
Weight : 6,33 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Emission: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, bien centré des deux côtés avec une usure superficielle. Beau portrait. Frappe molle au revers. Patine marron foncé
Catalogue references :
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 : AETE-RNITAS A-VG N// MOST.
Reverse description : Castor et Pollux (les Gémeaux ou les Dioscures), surmontés d'une étoile, nus debout face à face, le manteau sur l'épaule gauche, tenant chacun un sceptre long et de la main gauche, la bride de leurs chevaux ; au centre la louve allaitant Rémus et Romulus.
Reverse legend : G
Reverse translation : "Æternitas Augusti Nostri", (L'Éternité de notre auguste).
Commentary
Revers inhabituel beaucoup plus rare que sans la louve. Rubans de type 3.
Unusual reverse, much rarer than without the wolf. Type 3 ribbons
Unusual reverse, much rarer than without the wolf. Type 3 ribbons
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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