Late Roman Bronze Coins
Coin talk => COTD => Topic started by: Victor on November 20, 2012, 02:42:59 PM
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A fairly common type, but a bit harder to find from Trier, especially ones in good condition.
Constantine I
Posthumous
A.D. 337-340
15mm 1.6gm
DV CONSTANTI-NVS PT AVGG, veiled head right
REV. Emperor, veiled, in quadriga, the hand of God reaches down to him.
In ex dot TRS
RIC VIII Trier 44
After Constantine died in 337, his sons issued posthumous coins in honor of their father. Constantine was the last Emperor to be consecrated and deified on coins. Eusebius also wrote about one of these posthumous coins:
"At the same time coins were struck portraying the Blessed One on the obverse in the form of one with head veiled, on the reverse like a charioteer on a quadriga, being taken up by a right hand stretched out to him from above." Life of Constantine IV 73