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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 1951863, member: 57495&quot;]Just when I thought my collection was heading towards Roman Republican and Greek, it took a sudden detour this past month to the 4th century.&nbsp; I guess that&#039;s a perk (?) of not having much of a collecting focus <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be posting four of them over the course of the next week in the order that they were bought.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>This one&#039;s a fairly common Crispus Beata Traquillitas with some striking grassy-green highlights.&nbsp; It&#039;s my first Crispus, and while that&#039;s another ruler box checked, I&#039;ve also always wanted a coin of his because of the mystery surrounding his execution by his father.&nbsp; Was it treason, incest, rape, or was he set up by his jealous stepmother Fausta?&nbsp; The damnatio memoriae Constantine issued against him ensures that the question will never be satisfactorily answered.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]342311[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>CRISPUS, SON OF CONSTANTINE I</b></p><p>AE3. 3.4g, 18.5mm</p><p>Lyons mint, 322 - 323 AD</p><p>RIC VII 166</p><p>O: CRISPVS-NOB CAES, laureate head right.&nbsp; </p><p>R: BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS, globe on altar inscribed VO-TIS-XX, three stars above. C - R across fields.&nbsp; Mintmark PLG.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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