ALAMANNIA



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ALAMANNIA. - The reverse of one of Constantine 's gold coins has for its type, a woman seated at the foot of a trophy, supporting her head on her arm, as if lamenting her captivity. Round the field appears GAVDIVM ROMANORVM; and on the exergue is ALAMANNIA. - Engraves in Caylus, Aurea Numis. Rom. Impp. No 108. "This medal (says Spanheim, in his Caesars of Julian), refers to the victories of Constantine over the Alamanni, and also over the Franci, a nation between the Rhine and the Weser. - With regard to Alamannia, Zozimus relates that, after having defeated Maxentius, Constantine passed into Gaul, and directed his march agaist the Celtic tribes. With respect to Francia, other writers make mention of the Rhine, in the territory of the Ubians, now the dioeese of Cologne, in order to attach the Franci, or people of Westphalia and towards the Issel." There is also a similar legend and type on a gold coin of Crispus, to whose ill-requited valour his father was mainly indebted for this triumph.


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