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 
VLPP
from 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
Constantine the Great
A little about me
Constantine the Great

 
 
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
  Constantine Forum
chat about Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great
Bibliography
for Constantine the Great
Constantine the Great

 
 
 
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
Victor Aurelius
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

Newadded an unlisted draped only VLPP.     04 August 07

Newadded a RIC 102 VLPP unlisted officina and with horseman on shield to my NOT IN RIC page .     23 August 07

Newadded material to the page about my ancestors that fought in the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, and Civil War.   12 Sep 07

Newadded two coins to Siscia VLPP Page 3, an unlisted officina for RIC 82, and a RIC 95 with what may be a cross on the helmet.    12 Sep 07

Newadded a Soli Invicto with Sol holding a victory, and a Virtus Exercit with captives below trophy of arms to the Assorted Page 3.    12 Sep 07

Newadded a VRBS ROMA, Trier 542, to the Commemorative Page with an old Dutch ticket from 1864.     12 Sep 07

Newadded two commemoratives RIC 63 from Constantinople on a big flan with full border and RIC 369 from Arles with triple palm.   27 Nov 07

New created a page listing the ancient literary sources for Constantine.  8 Jan 08

Newadded a RIC VII Arles 394 Gloria Exercitus with a Chi-Rho on the banner.   18 Jan 08

Newadded an unlisted Gloria Exercitus from Heraclea to my Not in RIC page.   4 Mar 08

Newadded a VLPP from Siscia with an unlisted officina, epsilon, for RIC 82 . It is on the third Siscia VLPP page.    6 Mar 08

Newadded a page about the Constantine as the founder of peace and the FVNDAT PACIS coinage.    9 Apr 08

New added a PACI PERPET with an unlisted officina.   24 April 08
 


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


 
 

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