Constantine I 306-337 A.D.
| Coin Description | Constantine I the Great posthumous issued by his sons, AE 15mm, Grade ??, the coin well centered but is pretty worn or weakly struck on quite a thin flan. VM 95, RBC 376, RIC VIII Cyzicus 4. |
| Obverse | The veiled portrait (indicating a deceased person) is of Constantine the Great . The legend reads DV CONSTANTINVS PT AVGG meaning: DV (Divus = divine) used for consecrated and deified emperors. CONSTANTINVS (his name) PT AVGG (Pater (Father) of the Augusti his sons Constans, Constantine II and Constantius II , the double G indicates plural. Deification meant that the deceased was declared a God by a decree of the Senate a custom discontinued after Constantine under influence of Christianity. |
| Reverse |
The reverse shows Constantine I in a quadriga with the hand of God extended from above ready to bring the deceased to heaven. There is no legend on the reverse. |
| Mint | The exergue reads SMKε meaning the 5th workshop (epsilon) of the Cyzicus mint. |
| The Entire Story | This coin was struck by the sons of Constantine to honour their deceased and deified father Constantine the Great. |
