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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Constantinian Era| > |Constantine the Great| > RL88036
Constantine the Great, Early 307 - 22 May 337 A.D.
|Constantine| |the| |Great|, |Constantine| |the| |Great,| |Early| |307| |-| |22| |May| |337| |A.D.|, In 316, Constantine I sent his half-brother Julius Constantius to Licinius at Sirmium (Pannonia), with a proposal to make Bassianus caesar with power over Italy. Licinius refused, elevated Valerius Valens to augustus, mobilized an army against Constantine, and executed Bassianus. Constantine I defeated Licinius and Valerius Valens at the Battle of Mardia (near Harmanli, Bulgaria).
RL88036. Billon follis, RIC VII Trier 162 (R4), SRCV IV 16064, Cohen VII 525, Hunter V -, Choice gVF, excellent centering, flow lines, black tone with some coppery high spots, tiny edge cracks, 1st officina, Treveri (Trier, Germany) mint, weight 3.271g, maximum diameter 19.8mm, die axis 180o, 317 - 318 A.D.; obverse CONSTANTINVS P F AVG, laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust right; reverse SOLI INVICTO COMITI (to the unconquered Sun, minister [of the Emperor]), Sol standing slightly left, radiate, nude but for chlamys over shoulders and left arm, raising right hand commanding sunrise, globe in left hand, F - T divided across fields, •ATR in exergue; rare; SOLD











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