Anniversary giveaway: Can you guess my #1 from a snippet?

I think it's possible to identify it from the quarter posted here. (Any other quarter would have made it too easy!)

Since my first year anniversary on Coin Talk is coming up in a few days, I might as well make this an anniversary giveaway! First person to get it right wins this Crispus campgate from Trier:



Post your guesses in the thread linked above! (Or if you prefer, e.g. if you're an lrb expert, PM me your guess to give some of the less experienced a chance! )

 

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Constantine campgate from trier
CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG

 

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Gotta post your guesses in this other thread...

 

@maridvnvm got it right. But the Crispus is still up for grabs!

 

Answer now posted... congrats to @Ryro!!

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sa...all-4-never-posted.309286/page-3#post-2968488

 

I'd like to give a big thank you to Julia Mamaea (come on we all know she is the one really pulling the strings)!
Kidding aside thank you so very much @Severus Alexander. Funny enough, my wife and I just had twin boys a week and a half ago and one of them is named Alexander...though after the great, not you Sev (the other boy is named River). And those boys have left me with little sleep and even less money to pursue my love of ancients. So this really means a lot to me and my family. I'm still on cloud nine in my blue Mount Olympus over here. Thanks again

 

Awesome @Ryro, congrats on the twins!!! I'm so glad the Crispus will be appreciated, and now there are a couple new future collectors to get some enjoyment out of it too.

LOL, I love it!! Good for her to get some praise sometimes too.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong (as I often am), but isn't the coin pictured that was up for grabs (again, thank you very much) Constantius ii and not Crispus? If my sleepy eyes don't betray it says FLIVLCONSTANTIUSNOBC. Either way it's a beaut and surpasses any I have from this period. I just want to get the attribution correct as I still have much to learn.

 

How embarrassing! You are right, of course. I wonder how I got Crispus into my head? I think I just remembered it as being Crispus and then never bothered to read the legend!

I'd better fix it in the main thread!

 

I thought it was Crispus as well. It looks like him. After the boys and I woke up from nap time I was admiring the coin and saw the CONST and wanted to make sure. I'm sure you were thinking about that super cool piece of history you have as your #4. I've always thought it was the Chi-Rho symbol Constantine had them put on their shields. But historians all the time say it was the cross. That Crispus of yours may be the long needed proof to correct these history channel "professionals". Pretty cool.

 

From what I've read, there's a sizeable contingent (I think a majority?) of experts who'd say the chi-rho. But I think you're absolutely right that the coin is an important piece of evidence!

Here's a Crispus you can have instead of the Constantius, if you like! Thessalonica mint.

 

Just yesterday I was just listening to the professor Robert Garland, whom I enjoy and respect a lot, on Audible doing a lecture for the teaching company's Great Courses series called Rome and Greece:an integrated history. And while talking Constantine and the conversion of Christianity he several times referred to him seeing "the cross" in the sky and having the soldiers put "the cross" on their shields (picture me gritting my teeth with a tear building up in one eye). I kinda think it may just be laziness. I think it's easier to say the cross which is something all Christians and non are at least aware of then taking the 10 seconds to explain the Chi-Rho. So again, very cool coin!
Anyway, that is so kind of you. But I couldn't. That isn't the coin you planned on parting with. And I am very happy and proud of the one that I did win. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't a strange error or something with Constantius ii name on it but Crispus face or something.

 

that wot i wuz thinking too.. good job Ryro.. and very nice gesture SA congrats on your year!

 

I'm so excited! I just got my winning Constantius ii in the mail!! And it is even more magnificent in hand. Wahoo!!! Thank you so much @Severus Alexander. This guy not only out shines my other Constantius ii, he is the best looking of all my Constantinian family coins...one problem though.
As soon as I added him to my collection Delmatius and Hanniballianus (among others) wound up dead in their coin sleeves. Shortly thereafter, brother Constantine ii decided to attack other brother Constans to take the area of my collection that he resides in. Only Constans killed his attacking older brother in a most...fabulous fashion.
But just as things in the corner of my collection that the crazy Constantines reside in seemed to be calming down a chubby lesser coin general of Constans named Magnentius, and his goofy sidekick brother Decentius, offed Constans!
At present, Constantius ii is chasing the scoundrels through my coin collection to make them pay. As everyone knows, only someone that's part of the Constantinian family can kill another that's part of the clan. Just ask Crispus, Fausta, Licinius, Constantine ii, Delmatius, Hanniballianus, Constantius Gallus, etc, etc...
Anyway, enough of the family fueding and onto my picture of this awesome new coin (sorry, it's not as pretty as the one SA took, but will give you a different look).



Thanks again SA

 

You’re most welcome! It was worth giving away just for your awesome writeup! Sorry he wrought so much havoc in your coin drawer...

 

What a gorgeous portrait !

Q

 

The guy from the show. This old house. Without the beard

 

Thanks for sharing. Giveaways are noble

 

I agree, that is very sweet.