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Centenionalis - Constans I FEL TEMP REPARATIO, Treveri
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 348-350 |
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| Weight | 5.26 g |
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| Reverse description | The emperor Constans stands left aboard a military galley, his figure dominating the composition; he holds in his right hand a Victory statuette posed on a globe, and in his left hand a vexillum standard bearing a Chi-Rho (Christogram) on its banner, symbolising Christian imperial authority. At the stern of the vessel, a personification of Victory is seated, facing left, guiding the galley with a long rudder. The scene encapsulates the FEL TEMP REPARATIO propaganda programme, evoking the renewal of prosperous, divinely favoured times. The mint mark appears in the exergue, identifying the Treveri officina. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The FEL TEMP REPARATIO coinage was launched in 348 AD to mark the 1100th anniversary of Rome's founding, a propagandistic exercise shared across all mints of the divided empire simultaneously — one of the last coordinated imperial monetary initiatives before Constans was overthrown and killed by the usurper Magnentius in January 350. The Treveri mint, operating from what is now Trier, was among the most productive western facilities of the period.
RIC VIII 219 belongs to the "falling horseman" type, the most widely produced of the FEL TEMP subtypes. Trier examples are distinguished by their officina marks.