Constantine I the Great (307-337AD)
Struck - 336-337 AD.
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AE follis 17-18mm. 2.79gm. Constantinople mint. (EF) Well centered superb specimen.
Genuine glossy green-brown patina and earthen encrustation over ancient silvering.
Obv./ CONSTAN-TINOPLI, helmeted and laureate bust of Constantinopolis left. Rev./ Victory standing front, looking left, foot on prow of a galley, holding
transverse sceptre and shield. Mintmark CONSIA.
Authenticity guaranteed.
Original ancient Roman coin as pictured and described above.
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Coin is in good condition and very rare and nice inclusion to the finest collection. |
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Constantine: Caesar 306-307 AD; Filius Augustorum 307-309 AD; Augustus
309-337 AD. A vain, effeminate man who loved to adorn his body and the
full length of his arms, with jewellery. He executed his son Crispus on
trumped-up charges of incest and boiled his own wife, Fausta, to death.
He robbed Rome of most of its treasures and moved them to his new,
self-named capital city of Constantinople where they were lost or
destroyed when that city fell to the Muslims. In AD 330 he erected in
the forum of Constantinople a huge, gilded statue of Sol which he had
stolen from the temple in Heliopolis, Syria. The head of Sol was changed
to resemble Constantine and inscribed "Constantino solis instar
fulgenti", and citizens were forced to worship him as the sun-god.
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