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Coin Collection From Tetrarchy to the End of the Empire

Coin Collection From Tetrarchy to the End of the Empire

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Coin Collection

From Tetrarchy to the End of the Empire

Antoninus Pius: Temple Divus Augustus (138-161).

Diocletian: AE Antonianus Concordia Militum

Diocletian Concordia Militum

Diocletian accepting victory from Zeus

“CONCORDIA MILITVM” = military concord

Victory

Maxentius: Roma in temple. AD 308-310.

Helena: Securitas Reipublicae. VF

“[H]e [Constantine] had honored her [Helena] so fully with imperial dignities, that in every province, and in the very ranks of the soldiery, she was spoken of under the titles of Augusta and empress, and her likeness was impressed on golden coins.” Eusebius of Caesarea, Vita Constantini III. 47; trans. E. C. Richardson, NPNF i. 532.

Constantius Chlorus: Genio Populi Romani

Constantine: Soli Invicto Comiti

Constantine: Roma & She-wolf & Chi-Rho

Constantine Veiled. Hand of God reaching down to Constantine.

Constantius II: CentenionalisHoc signo victor eris

Constantius II: Soldier spearing fallen horseman.