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Auction 11  12 January 2014
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Lot 530

Estimate: 25 000 USD
Price realized: 20 000 USD
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Constantine I. 307-337 AD. Solidus, 4.44g (5h). Ticinum, 315 AD. Obv: CONSTANTI - NVS P F AVG Head laureate right. Rx: RECTOR TOTIVS ORBIS Constantine in military dress seated left on cuirass and two shields, resting right hand on zodiac band and holding parazonium in left, at right Victory standing left behind him places wreath on his head and holds palm, S.M.T in exergue; the zodiac band shows the three signs Taurus (Bull) at the bottom, Gemini (Twins) in the center, and Cancer (Crab) at the top. Rauch 77, 10 April 2006, lot 658 (same dies). Mintmark variant of RIC 54 (BM only, pl. 10), Depeyrot 16/4 (p. 72, BM only), and Cohen 643 (BM, 800 Fr.). Apparently only the fourth specimen recorded with this interesting reverse type: this coin and the Rauch specimen with mintmark S.M.T; BM and NAC 52, 7 October 2009, lot 606 with mintmark SMT. Mint State/Choice EF (Aaron 3X ENLARGEMENT OF REVERSE ONLY.)

Ex Gemini IV, 8 January 2008, lot 511

This reverse type, calling Constantine RECTOR TOTIVS ORBIS, "The Master of the Whole World," seems to refer to his defeat of Maxentius in 312, since a similar type of the emperor seated holding zodiac, but without the figure of Victory crowning him, also struck at Ticinum at about the same time, calls the emperor RESTITVTOR LIBERTATIS, "The Restorer of Liberty," the epithet Constantine assumed for eliminating Maxentius (RIC 39 and 55)
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