Late Roman Bronze Coins

Coin talk => COTD => Topic started by: Victor on May 23, 2025, 09:18:40 AM

Title: Crispus PROVIDENTIAE CAESS campgate from Nicomedia
Post by: Victor on May 23, 2025, 09:18:40 AM
I just got this nice example. Crispus is one of the great "what ifs" of history. What if he had not been executed and eventually became Emperor; who knows what might have been.

Crispus
A.D. 325-326
19mm   3.5g
FL IVL CRISPVS NOB C; Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust left.
PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS; campgate with two turrets and star between them.
in ex. MNB
RIC VII Nicomedia 122