See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration! or register with email

Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!

Follis - Constans I FL CONSTANTIS BEA C / GLORIA EXERCITVS, Siscia

Issuer Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD)
Year 337
Type Log in to see details
Value Log in to see details
Currency Log in to see details
Composition Log in to see details
Weight 1.7 g
Diameter Log in to see details
Thickness Log in to see details
Shape Log in to see details
Technique Log in to see details
Orientation Log in to see details
Engraver(s) Log in to see details
In circulation to Log in to see details
Reference(s) Log in to see details
Obverse description Laureate and draped bust of Constans I facing right, portrayed as a youthful Caesar with finely rendered hair beneath a laurel wreath. The effigy displays paludamentum fastened at the shoulder, consistent with the Caesaral iconography of the Constantinian dynasty. The circumferential legend reads FL CONSTANTIS BEA C, identifying the subject as Flavius Constans, Beatissimus Caesar. The portrait occupies the full field of this small bronze, executed in the late Constantinian style characteristic of the Siscia mint. The flan is slightly irregular, as typical of hammered issues of this period.
Obverse script Log in to see details
Obverse lettering FL CONSTANTIS BEA C
(Translation: FLavii CONSTANTIS BEAtissimi Caesaris (Flavius Constans Blessed Caesar))
Reverse description Two helmeted Roman soldiers standing facing one another, each clad in military attire and resting on a grounded spear held in the outer hand, with an inner hand supporting a shield set at their feet. Between the two soldiers stands a single legionary standard surmounted by a round finial, the defining feature distinguishing this two-standard type's later single-standard variant as issued for Constans as Caesar. The encircling legend GLORIA EXERCITVS proclaims the glory of the army. The mint mark in the exergue denotes the Siscia officina, with the delta (∆) indicating the fourth workshop.
Reverse script Log in to see details
Reverse lettering Log in to see details
Edge Log in to see details
Mint Log in to see details
Mintage Log in to see details
Additional information Log in to see details

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE