Item number: A2811

Year: AD 335-337

Material: Bronze

Size: 16.8 x 15.6 x 1.1 mm

Weight: 1.7 g

Manufactured by: Siscia, Croatia

Provenance: Fuchin Coin 2020

This is a Nummus bronze coin issued between AD 335 and AD 337 in honour of Dalmatius, who had been appointed as Caesar (junior emperor). The term nummus in Latin means “coin,” and in the Roman period it referred specifically to coins primarily made of bronze.

The obverse of the coin features a right-facing portrait of Dalmatius, shown wearing a laurel wreath and draped in a cloak. The surrounding circular Latin inscription reads “FL DELMATIVS NOB C,” an abbreviation of “Flavius Dalmatius Nobilissimus Caesar,” meaning “Flavius Dalmatius, Most Noble Caesar.”

The reverse of the coin depicts a pair of fully armed Roman soldiers standing face to face, separated by two military standards positioned at the centre. Each soldier holds a spear in one hand and rests the other on a shield. Below the ground line where the soldiers stand appears the mintmark “BSIS,” indicating that the coin was struck in Siscia, a major mint city in the province of Pannonia Superior, corresponding to present-day central Croatia. The surrounding Latin legend reads “GLORIA EXERCITVS,” meaning “The Glory of the Army.” This type of imagery — featuring soldiers alongside military standards, accompanied by inscriptions celebrating the army — became a common motif on Roman coinage from the reign of Constantine the Great onwards.

Dalmatius, a nephew of Constantine the Great, was appointed Caesar in AD 335 and entrusted with the administration of several eastern provinces, including Thrace, Macedonia, and Achaea. However, in AD 337, amid the power struggle that followed the death of Constantine the Great, Dalmatius was killed by his own soldiers. His assassination is generally regarded as part of a larger purge orchestrated by Constantius II — Constantine’s son and one of his successors — aimed at eliminating potential rivals to the imperial throne to consolidate his authority.

物件編號: A2811

年代: 公元 335-337 年

材質: 青銅

尺寸: 16.8 x 15.6 x 1.1 mm

重量: 1.7 g

製造地: 錫薩克，克羅埃西亞

來源: 福君錢幣 2020

這是一枚公元335至337年，以封為凱薩(副皇帝)的達爾瑪提烏斯為對象發行鑄造的努米銅幣。「努米」在拉丁文的意思是「硬幣」，於羅馬時代是指稱以銅為主要原料的硬幣。

錢幣正面是頭戴桂冠，身著披風的達爾瑪提烏斯右側肖像。肖像周圍的環形拉丁銘文「FL DELMATIVS NOB C」意思是「弗拉維烏斯·達爾瑪提烏斯，最尊貴的凱撒」。

錢幣背面是中間以軍旗作為分隔，相互對望全副武裝的一對羅馬士兵。士兵們一手握著長矛，另一手扶著盾牌。士兵矗立的地平線下方打印鑄幣地點戳記「BSIS」，即位於今日克羅埃西亞中部的上潘諾尼亞行省重要造幣城市錫薩克。錢幣周圍的拉丁銘文「GLORIA EXERCITVS」意思是「軍隊的光榮」。帶有士兵的圖像和歌頌軍隊的銘文是君士坦丁大帝以降，羅馬硬幣常見的設計風格。

達爾瑪提烏斯是君士坦丁大帝的姪子，於公元335年被指派為統治色雷斯、馬其頓和亞該亞等東方行省的凱撒。但是公元337年，隨著君士坦丁大帝駕崩帶來的權力競爭，達爾瑪提烏斯遭到麾下士兵殺害，能被視為君士坦丁大帝繼承者君士坦提烏斯二世為了鞏固權力，對於潛在皇位競爭者發起暗殺的密謀之一。