Roma Numismatics Ltd
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Constantine I 'the Great' BI Nummus. London, AD 324. CONSTANTINVS AVG, laureate head to right / SARMATIA DEVICTA, Victory advancing to right, holding trophy and palm, trampling captive seated on ground to right; PLON(crescent) in exergue. RIC VII 289; C&T 10.01.002; RML 1107 (forthcoming). 2.86g, 20mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; beautifully centred on the flan.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 77, 26 November 2020, lot 1342 (hammer: £220).
This reverse type, which was also produced in silver, alludes to Constantine's victories in the 'second phase' of the Sarmatian War (roughly AD 322-3). According to Zosimus (lib. 2), the emperor led a vast army out from his general headquarters at Thessalonica and managed to drive the Sarmatae, who had been raiding the territories of Moesia Inferior and Thrace, back beyond the Danube. Constantine then instructed his army to pursue the routed enemy, which prevented them from rallying and reorganising, before crushing them once more, this time taking thousands captive and killing their king, Rausimodus.
Extremely Fine; beautifully centred on the flan.
From the collection of a Romanophile;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 77, 26 November 2020, lot 1342 (hammer: £220).
This reverse type, which was also produced in silver, alludes to Constantine's victories in the 'second phase' of the Sarmatian War (roughly AD 322-3). According to Zosimus (lib. 2), the emperor led a vast army out from his general headquarters at Thessalonica and managed to drive the Sarmatae, who had been raiding the territories of Moesia Inferior and Thrace, back beyond the Danube. Constantine then instructed his army to pursue the routed enemy, which prevented them from rallying and reorganising, before crushing them once more, this time taking thousands captive and killing their king, Rausimodus.