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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bing, post: 2811417, member: 44132&quot;]A couple of weeks ago one of our generous posters, [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER], decided to send me a gift of a coin.&nbsp; With the gift, he gave me a mission of researching this coin.&nbsp; It was very magnanimous of him to do so, and because he thought enough to freely gift this coin, I believe it was my responsibility to uphold my part and do some research on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin was struck under Constantius I &quot;Chlorus&quot; whose original name was Flavius Valerius Constantius.&nbsp; Born 250 AD at Dacia Ripensis, and died July 25, 306, at Eboracum, Britain (present day York, North Yorkshire, England). As a member the tetrarchy created by Diocletian, Constantius was first caesar from 293 to 305 and caesar augustus in 305–306.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius had a distinguished military career and served as governor of Dalmatia. In 289 he left his concubine, Helena, mother of Constantine, and married Theodora, the stepdaughter of the emperor Maximian; with Theodora he had three children, Dalmatius, Constantius, and Constantia.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantius was assigned to rule Gaul and ordered to subdue Marcus Aurelius Carausius, a usurper in Britain. In 293 he captured Carausius’s mainland base, Gesoriacum (Boulogne, France). Allectus, Carausius’s finance minister, murdered him and was granted three years of peaceful rule.&nbsp; In 296 Constantius and his praetorian prefect, Asclepiodotius, launched a two-pronged attack on Britain. Asclepiodotius defeated and slew Allectus in Hampshire, while Constantius sailed up the Thames to London and destroyed what was left of Allectus’s army. In 298 he triumphed over the Alemanni in Gaul. When Diocletian and Maximian abdicated on May 1, 305, Constantius became the senior emperor in the West. He died the following year in a victory over the Picts, and his troops proclaimed Constantine emperor.</p><p><br /></p><p>BTW, Constantius’s nickname Chlorus, means “The Pale” and is first found in Byzantine sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>Now the coin:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]657978[/ATTACH]</p><p>CONSTANTIUS I</p><p>AE Follis or Nummus</p><p>OBVERSE: IMP C CONSTANTIVS P F AVG, laureate head right </p><p>REVERSE: FIDES MI-LITVM (&quot;The loyalty of the military&quot;), Fides enthroned holding a scepter in right hand and a military Ensign of the left hand; pellet right in field; TT in ex.</p><p>Struck at Ticinum 305-306 AD</p><p>9.15g, 28mm</p><p>RIC VI 55a; Sear 14170</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, from my research I believe this to be a rare reverse for this ruler</p><p><br /></p><p>Thank you [USER=14873]@jamesicus[/USER].&nbsp; I&#039;m sorry it took me so long to get this on the forum, but life has a way of taking over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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