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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Constantinian Era| > |Helena| > RL27785
St. Helena, Augusta, 8 November 324 - c. 330 A.D., Mother of Constantine the Great
|Helena|, |St.| |Helena,| |Augusta,| |8| |November| |324| |-| |c.| |330| |A.D.,| |Mother| |of| |Constantine| |the| |Great|, In 326 A.D., Helena told Constantine that he must atone for executing his son and wife by building churches. About this date construction began on Old St. Peter's Basilica, the first church on the traditional site of Saint Peter's tomb in Rome, and on the basilica of Golgotha on Calvary outside Jerusalem.
RL27785. Billon centenionalis, RIC VII Heraclea p. 551, 79 (R2); LRBC I 873; SRCV IV 16613; Cohen VII 12; Hunter V -, gVF, 2nd officina, Heraclea (Marmara Ereglisi, Turkey) mint, weight 2.471g, maximum diameter 19.2mm, die axis 180o, 325 - 326 A.D.; obverse FL HELENA AVGVSTA, diademed and draped bust right; reverse SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE (security of the Republic), Securitas standing half left, veiled head left, branch downward in right hand, raising pallium with left hand, SMHB in exergue; SOLD











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