Live auction - brm_870741 - MAXENTIUS Follis ou nummus
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| Estimate : | 120 € |
| Price : | 67 € |
| Maximum bid : | 100 € |
| End of the sale : | 23 January 2024 15:43:42 |
| bidders : | 2 bidders |
Type : Follis ou nummus
Date: fin
Date: 309
Mint name / Town : Ostie
Metal : copper
Diameter : 26 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 6,27 g.
Rarity : R2
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Flan large, centré. Joli revers, détaillé. Portrait agréable. Patine marron-vert
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 : AETERNITAS AVG N/ -|-// MOSTP.
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.
Reverse translation : "Æternitas Augusti Nostri", (L'Éternité de notre auguste).
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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