Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XX 29-30 Oct 2020
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Constantine III AR Siliqua. Treveri, AD 408-411. D N CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, pearl-diademed, draped and cuirassed bust right / VICTORIA AAVGGG, Roma seated left on cuirass, holding Victory on globe and inverted spear; TRMS in exergue. RIC 1534; Lafaurie 11. 1.38g, 16mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; minor flan crack 12/6h, sharply struck on an unusually broad flan. Rare.
Ex Trausnitz Collection, acquired from Münzhandlung Athena GmbH (Munich) prior to 2000, dealer's ticket included.
Constantine III is remembered chiefly as the general and usurper who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in 407 while based in Britannia, stripping all troops from the province and thus leaving the province open to Saxon invasion and conquest. Thus was Britannia forever lost to Rome.
Extremely Fine; minor flan crack 12/6h, sharply struck on an unusually broad flan. Rare.
Ex Trausnitz Collection, acquired from Münzhandlung Athena GmbH (Munich) prior to 2000, dealer's ticket included.
Constantine III is remembered chiefly as the general and usurper who declared himself Western Roman Emperor in 407 while based in Britannia, stripping all troops from the province and thus leaving the province open to Saxon invasion and conquest. Thus was Britannia forever lost to Rome.