"Wild Winds" ancient coin attributing site comments about Constantine

I have been using the "Wild Winds" site with great success to attribute my Roman imperial coins. I was surprised to read this about the emperor Constantine I (a.k.a. "The Great").

Constantine: Caesar 306-307 AD; Filius Augustorum 307-309 AD; Augustus 309-337 AD. A vain, effeminate man who loved to adorn his body and the full length of his arms, with jewellery. He executed his son Crispus on trumped-up charges of incest and boiled his own wife, Fausta, to death. He robbed Rome of most of its treasures and moved them to his new, self-named capital city of Constantinople where they were lost or destroyed when that city fell to the Muslims. In AD 330 he erected in the forum of Constantinople a huge, gilded statue of Sol which he had stolen from the temple in Heliopolis, Syria. The head of Sol was changed to resemble Constantine and inscribed "Constantino solis instar fulgenti", and citizens were forced to worship him as the sun-god. (From the French translation of a late 4th c. Latin text)

Most sources paint Constantine in a much more positive light. Do the people at "Wild Winds" have something against Constantine, or is this a bit of overstatement or fiction?

 

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Here’s a past thread on this matter:

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/wildwinds-constantine-hack-job.292400/

 

John, I think a good portion of the info you posted from Wild Winds is hyperbole .

 

Reading the thread mentioned above I'm not sure it is.

It's extreme enough it's been commented on twice . Wikipedia provides a more objective biography. Although even their biography of Hitler manages to find a couple of positives.

 

The comments are likely part of the original (eBay?) description.