18 Sept. 335 - summer 337 FL DELMATIVS NOB C GLOR-IA EXERC-ITVS Two soldiers and one standard. SMANI Antioch mint. RIC 112. Delmatius, sometimes spelled with an A, "Dalmatius," was a grandson of Constantine's father by his second wife, Theodora. Delmatius was killed in the "Great Massacre" of 337 shortly after the death of Constantine. R. W. Burgess writes in "The Summer of Blood" (Dumbarton Oaks papers volume 62 (2008) pp.5-51), "Although Constantine was the first Christian emperor, his reign was marred by more familial bloodshed than that of any other Roman emperor: he himself was involved in one degree or another in the deaths of his wife's father, his wife's brother, his half-sister's husband, his eldest son, this wife, and another half-sister's husband and son. ... Moreover, after his death most of the male descendants of Constantius I, his father, and Theodora, Constantius's second wife and Constantine's stepmother and half-sister-in-law, were assassinated in a plot that involved at least one of this sons." [$69+4 shipping in the US] For many more nice coins of this time period, see http://augustusmath.hypermart.net/Tetrarchy.html
