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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2607271, member: 42773&quot;]Here are two fabulous representatives of the Rome and Constantinople commems, both from the Trier mint...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]570078[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s another style comparison. The personifications of Rome and Constantinople are always youthful in appearance, but the Western mint engravers tend to give them puffy cheeks, and they look like boys. The Eastern mint issues have leaner features and look more like teenagers. Here are two coins of the same types, from Siscia and Alexandria...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]570079[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One more thing to notice about these types: Constantinople carries a scepter, the sign of nobility and rule. Rome does not. That&#039;s because these coins were issued after Constantine the Great moved the Roman capital from Rome to Constantinople in AD 330...</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><i>On 11 May 330, Constantine I refounded Byzantium, renamed it Constantinopolis after himself, and moved the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to his new city. The new capital was Christian, old gods and traditions were either replaced or assimilated into a framework of Christian symbolism. Constantine built the new Church of the Holy Apostles on the site of a temple to Aphrodite. Generations later there was the story that a divine vision led Constantine to this spot. The capital would often be compared to the &#039;old&#039; Rome as Nova Roma Constantinopolitana, the `New Rome of Constantinople.` Special commemorative coins were issued with types for both Rome and Constantinople to advertise the importance of the new capital. </i>--FORVM</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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