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Constantine I 'the Great' AV Solidus. Treveri, AD 312-313. CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate head to right / FELICITAS REIPVBLICAE, Constantine seated to left on curule chair set on high ornamented dais, two soldiers standing to left behind, each holding spear; three figures kneeling to right in supplication before daïs, with hands raised; PTR in exergue. RIC VI 810; Depeyrot 17/2; Biaggi 1968; Calicó -. 4.52g, 18mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; a few scattered marks. Extremely Rare.
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
The reverse type of this coin, commemorating the 'Good Fortune/Happiness of the State', is unusual for the period, and there has been some debate as to what, if anything, is the source of this positivity. While Bastien argued that it commemorated no particular event, Sutherland assigns it to AD 310-311 after Constantine's successes against the Franks and the Alemanni, and Depeyrot argues that it was most likely struck in AD 312-313 following the victory at the famous Battle of the Milvian Bridge, in which Constantine had defeated his rival Maxentius. Certainly after these victories, the State could consider itself to be in a position of relative felicity, with the West ruled solely by Constantine, and soon after with the entire Empire in some sort of harmony (albeit tenuous) - his colleague in the East, Licinius, having defeated his local rival Maximinus II in AD 313.
Extremely Fine; a few scattered marks. Extremely Rare.
From the inventory of a UK dealer.
The reverse type of this coin, commemorating the 'Good Fortune/Happiness of the State', is unusual for the period, and there has been some debate as to what, if anything, is the source of this positivity. While Bastien argued that it commemorated no particular event, Sutherland assigns it to AD 310-311 after Constantine's successes against the Franks and the Alemanni, and Depeyrot argues that it was most likely struck in AD 312-313 following the victory at the famous Battle of the Milvian Bridge, in which Constantine had defeated his rival Maxentius. Certainly after these victories, the State could consider itself to be in a position of relative felicity, with the West ruled solely by Constantine, and soon after with the entire Empire in some sort of harmony (albeit tenuous) - his colleague in the East, Licinius, having defeated his local rival Maximinus II in AD 313.