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Nummus - Constantinus I GENIO POP ROM, Lugdunum
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Lugdunum (Lyon) |
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| Year | 307 |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Laureate and draped bust of Constantine I as Caesar, facing right, with paludamentum (military cloak) fastened at the shoulder, rendered in three-quarter forward perspective. The obverse legend is inscribed in Latin around the bust, identifying the subject by his full title. The portrait displays the vigorous, idealized style characteristic of early Tetrarchic and post-Tetrarchic imperial coinage from the Lugdunum mint. |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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By 307, Lugdunum was operating under the authority of Constantine I, who had been proclaimed Augustus by his troops at Eboracum just the previous year following his father Constantius I's death — a proclamation the rest of the imperial college refused to recognize. The GENIO POP ROM type was a deliberate appeal to traditional Roman religious sentiment at precisely the moment when the Tetrarchic system was fracturing beyond repair; six men would claim the title of Augustus simultaneously before the year was out.
RIC VI 231 is among the heavier folles of the Lugdunum sequence, reflecting the denomination before the post-308 weight reductions that followed the Conference of Carnuntum.