ROMAN EMPIRE

CRISPUS Caesar, AD 317-326.

AE 3, (Copper, 3.18 grams, 17.73 mm). Aquilea mint.

Obverse: CRISPVS NOB CAES, His laureate bust right.

Reverse: CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, around wreath in which VOT/X between two palm-branches . In exergue:   .AQS..

Reference: RIC. 90 (R5), page 404, Vol. VII.

High relief portrait and strong reverse. Brown and copper patina.

A very nice coin in hand!  (# 02748-49)

Crispus was the 1st son of Constantine the Great by his first wife Minervina. 

Fausta, the second wife of Constantine, and the mother of his three other children, Constantine II, Constans, and Constantius II, fabricated evidence of treason by Crispus against Constantine 1st. Crispus was soon executed.

Then Constantine learned the truth by the wife of Fausta's lover. He condemned Fausta to death. 

She was lowered into a bath of boiling water.

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