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Up for auction is a Roman ae3 posthumous issue coin of Constantine I from 330-340 AD.
ID# 569g (UK)
MINT: UNKNOWN
OBVERSE; DV CONSTANTI-NVS PT AVGG
- Veiled head right.
REVERSE; VN-MR
-Emperor veiled, facing right, raising right hand.
Constantine I
307 - 337
One of the great Roman emperors, Constantine rose to power when his father Constantius Chlorus died in the year 306 while campaigning against Scottish tribes. He later went on to defeat the rival emperor Maxentius in the decisive battle of Milvian Bridge in 312. He is credited for several great landmarks in history and is probably best memorialized by the city that bore his name for hundreds of years: Constantinople. Although now renamed Istanbul, this city was to be the seat of power for all Byzantine emperors for the next 1100 years. Constantine is also remembered as the first Roman emperor who embraced Christianity and instituted the buildings and papal dynasty that eventually grew into what is today the Vatican and the Pope.