Constantine the Great


The 8 ½ foot tall head from a colossal statue of Constantine the Great.It resides in the Palazzo dei Conservatori (Capitoline museum)
Constantine the Great was “matched by none in grace and beauty of form, or in tallness, and so surpassing his contemporaries in personal strength that he struck terror into them.” - Eusebius.
  This website features the bronze coinage of Constantine the Great. Constantine was one of the most (if not the most) influential of the Roman emperors, and his actions and deeds are still affecting people to this day. An interesting question to ask is, “without Constantine would Christianity have flourished?”


Bust of Constantine the Great in the National Museum in Belgrade
Statue of Constantine the Great in the narthex of San Giovanni in Laterano in Rome, circa 315 A.D.
Bust of Constantine the Great (Musei Capitolini, Roma)


Constantiniana Dafne
A page about Constantine's  Dafne coinage
 Gallery of Dafne coins

 
 
Victoriae Laetae Princ Perp 
VLPPfrom Siscia

VLPP Die Match

VLPP from Arles, London, 
Lugdunum,Ticinum and Trier
Constantine's Barbarian Wars

Barbarous VLPP imitations


 
 
Assorted Reverse Types
Adventus-
Gloria Exercitus
Gloria Romanorvm- 
Sarmatia Devicta
Soli Invicto- 
VOT XXX
 
 
Assorted Topics
Constantine the Great
City Commemoratives
CONSTANTINOPOLIS & VRBS ROMA
Christian Symbolism
on coinage of
Constantine the Great
Unlisted Coins
of Constantine the Great
'not in RIC'
Second Civil War
between Constantine & Licinius
commemorative coinage
Constantine coins 
from hoards
Killingholme     Langtoft      Nether Compton
An ancient soap opera :
Constantine and Crispus
Centering dots on
Constantine's coinage
Constantine the Great's
billon coinage
from Trier
Constantine the Great
coins from 
the "monneron hoard"
fractional coins with
denominational marks
on Constantine coins
Constantine the Great
and Maxentius :
Clash of Titans
Gallery of Constantine the
Great's family
Posthumous coins
of Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great
as the Founder of Peace
FVNDAT PACIS
Stolen or
lost coins
Constantine the Great and
the Farnese Hercules
HERCVLI VICTORI
A fantasy coin 
of Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great
and a curious cryptogram
ROMAE AETERNAE

 
 
Resources 
A History of 
Constantine the Great
    RIC VII Bust Types 
Plain Busts A-F
Map of Roman Mints
Circa A.D. 325
Reverse Types for 
Constantine the Great
Adjunct Busts
Types G-I
Mint Activity
313-337 A.D.
Reverse Legend 
Translations for
Constantine the Great coins
Adjunct Busts
Types J-Q
Match the mint
with the portrait of
Constantine the Great
Links
Metallurgy
of Constantine coins
 Bibliography
for Constantine the Great

 
 
 

My Master's Thesis:
Constantine the Great: The Coins Speak



 
 
 
 

Ancient Sources
Edict of Milan 
Origo Constantini Imperatoris 
The Lineage of the Emperor Constantine 
Eusebius
Oration in Praise of
the Emperor Constantine
Constantine
Oration to the Assembly
of Saints
  Constantine's Letters 
Book 1
Book 2
Book 3
Eusebius
Life of Constantine
Zosimus 
New History
Book 2
Lactantius
The Manner in which
the Persecutors died
Photius
review of Praxagoras
Constantine the Great
Life of the Caesars
Constantine the Great
What would it buy? Diocletian's Edict on Prices part of the Ancient Coins for Education series

 
 
 
Recent changes or additions

NewI am no longer collecting coins, but this website will stay online.   20 Oct 2008

NewI finished my master's thesis "Constantine the Great: The Coins Speak" and received my MA in Dec 2009
 



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Constantine the Great bust at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York



 
 

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