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Price : 80.00 €
Item sold on our e-shop (2016)
Price : 80.00 €
Type : Centenionalis ou nummus
Date: c. 331
Mint name / Town : Lyon
Metal : copper
Diameter : 16,5 mm
Orientation dies : 6 h.
Weight : 2,23 g.
Rarity : R1
Officine: 1re
Coments on the condition:
Exemplaire sur un petit flan irrégulier et ovale, bien centré des deux côtés. Beau petit portrait de Rome. Joli revers de style fin. Belle patine marron foncé
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Predigree :
Cet exemplaire provient de la collection F. de La Viuda
Obverse
Obverse legend : VRBS - ROMA.
Obverse description : Buste casqué et cuirassé de Rome à gauche, vu de trois quarts en avant (C*1).
Obverse translation : “Urbs Roma”, (La Ville de Rome).
Reverse
Reverse legend : ANÉPIGRAPHE/ -|-// *PLG.
Reverse description : La louve à gauche, allaitant Romulus et Rémus ; au-dessus, les deux étoiles des Dioscures (les Gémeaux, Castor et Pollux).
Commentary
Avec son argenture superficielle. Casque et couvre nuque lisses. Épaulière cloutée. Ptéryges larges à peine visibles.
With its superficial silver plating. Smooth helmet and neck cover. Studded shoulder guard. Wide, barely visible pteryges
With its superficial silver plating. Smooth helmet and neck cover. Studded shoulder guard. Wide, barely visible pteryges
Historical background
ROMA
(330-348)
Rome was founded on April 21, 753 BC according to Varro (Ab Urbe Condita). The city, whose population fluctuated between 400,000 and one million during the High Empire, lost its importance from the second half of the 3rd century. The choice by Constantine of a new capital, from 326, dealt him a fatal blow from which the Urbs would not recover before the Renaissance. The city will still survive for nearly one hundred and fifty years, despite two sacks: those of 410 and 455. Rome is no longer in Rome.
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