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Constantine I 'the Great' BI Nummus. London, AD 311-312. IMP CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Constantine to right / MARTI CONSERVATORI, helmeted, draped and cuirassed bust of Mars to right. RML 8.7 (this coin - forthcoming); for a similar parallel issue from the mint of Trier, cf. RIC VI, p. 227, 877-85; for the corresponding SOLI INVICTO COMITI issue from the London mint, cf. C&T 6.04.001. 4.13g, 25mm, 6h.
Good Extremely Fine. Of the greatest rarity.
This coin published in K. Elks, The Roman Mint of London (London: London Ancient Coins Ltd) (forthcoming);
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 75, 15 October 2020, lot 811 (hammer: £1,500).
Since the publication of 'An Unpublished Nummus of Constantine I of the Mint of London' by Georges Gautier in NC 152, 1992, pp. 157-60, pl. 36, 1, it has long been suspected the parallel issue of MARTI CONSERVATORI would one day turn up.
This unmarked issue, also struck at Trier, Ticinum and Aquilea, was struck from about AD 311 to mid 313 in a propitious propaganda campaign invoking both invincible Sol and Mars as the god of war, in the preparation for Constantine's the attack on Maxentius in Rome and the prospect of the annexation of Italy and Africa to Constantine's share of the empire.
Good Extremely Fine. Of the greatest rarity.
This coin published in K. Elks, The Roman Mint of London (London: London Ancient Coins Ltd) (forthcoming);
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 75, 15 October 2020, lot 811 (hammer: £1,500).
Since the publication of 'An Unpublished Nummus of Constantine I of the Mint of London' by Georges Gautier in NC 152, 1992, pp. 157-60, pl. 36, 1, it has long been suspected the parallel issue of MARTI CONSERVATORI would one day turn up.
This unmarked issue, also struck at Trier, Ticinum and Aquilea, was struck from about AD 311 to mid 313 in a propitious propaganda campaign invoking both invincible Sol and Mars as the god of war, in the preparation for Constantine's the attack on Maxentius in Rome and the prospect of the annexation of Italy and Africa to Constantine's share of the empire.