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Nummus - Constantinus I SOLI INVICTO COMITI, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Rome |
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| Year | 314-315 |
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| Reference(s) | RIC VII#27, OCRE#ric.7.rom.27 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Standing figure of Sol Invictus facing left, nude save for a chlamys draped over the left shoulder, right hand raised in salutation and left hand holding a globe. The god is depicted in a striding pose with characteristic solar iconography. The divided reverse legend flanks the figure to left and right, with the value mark R/X-F positioned in the lower field, and the mint mark in the exergue. |
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The SOLI INVICTO COMITI issues of Constantine I reflect a deliberate transitional theology — Sol Invictus retained as imperial companion at a moment when Constantine was already cultivating Christian support following the Edict of Milan in 313. Rome's mint was politically awkward territory for Constantine at this point; the city remained administratively under his control after Maxentius's defeat at the Milvian Bridge in 312, but he never returned to live there. RIC VII Rome 27 falls within the earliest post-Maxentian production, when the mint was being reorganized under new officina arrangements.