Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => Late Roman Bronze coins => Topic started by: Victor on November 21, 2021, 09:41:15 AM

Title: Constantine I as Caesar from Antioch
Post by: Victor on November 21, 2021, 09:41:15 AM

I think this is the last issue with Constantine as Caesar...maybe because he was so grumpy.


Constantine I
A.D. 309- 310
Ӕ follis  23x24mm    6.3g
FL VAL CONSTANTINVS NOB CAES; laureate head right.
GENIO CAESARIS✶; Genius standing left, modius on head, naked except for chlamys over l. shoulder, r. holding patera over altar, l. cornucopiae; right field I.
In ex. ANT
RIC VI Antioch 118b

Title: Re: Constantine I as Caesar from Antioch
Post by: Heliodromus on November 21, 2021, 12:38:07 PM

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I think this is the last issue with Constantine as Caesar...maybe because he was so grumpy.

Probably hadn't heard the good news about Galerius' putrefying privates yet ...

RIC does include Constantine as caesar in the following */altar issue (RIC 132b), citing only Voetter-Gerin, but I've never seen one. It would be expected though ... this is the issue where we see Daia both as caesar (GENIO CAESARIS) and as augustus (GENIO IMPERATORIS), and I'd expect the same for Constantine.