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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2695532, member: 83956"]This write-up appears on the splash page of CoinTalk today, so I suspect it will enjoy new life. I enjoyed the OP coin and write-up.</p><p><br /></p><p>As with all things Constantine coinage, I turn to Victor Clark for some great insight. Somewhere I record him as saying, "People who expect to find Christian imagery on bronze coins of Constantine will be disappointed. Of approximately 1,363 coins of Constantine I . . . covering the period of 313-337, roughly one percent might be classified as having Christian symbols.” It seems that the sons of Constantine seemed more eager to exploit that Milvian Bridge moment and its associated iconography on their coins, and it seems that the usurper Magnentius upped the ante with his gigantic Chi-Rho: "My Christianity can beat up your Christianity."</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's my "bridge" coin--a worn version I bought in 2006 from "Silenos Coins," then on VCoins, for $31. At the time, I recorded these notes:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes</b>: There is much disagreement over what the bridge signifies and the context for this coin’s issue. The general view now is that the coin was a donative distributed to commemorate the formal founding/dedication of Constantinople in 330 AD. However, “LRBC p.25 dates the POP ROMANVS (and the Star in wreath) issue to the Period IV, AD 341-346, after the death of Constantine I AD 337.” Some have suggested that the bridge is the Milvian Bridge where Constantine received his victorious Christian vision. Curtis Clay disputes this reading, arguing that these events would have become a dim memory by 330 AD. Another argument maintains that Constantine wanted to commemorate the peace between Goths and Sarmatians who had fought from the opposite banks of the Danube. Similarly, the bridge might symbolize the unity of East and West, of Rome and Constantinople, and thus the unity of the Populus Romanus.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC VIII, 21 (C3); <i>Ex: Silenos Coins; 1/06</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]605561[/ATTACH] </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 2695532, member: 83956"]This write-up appears on the splash page of CoinTalk today, so I suspect it will enjoy new life. I enjoyed the OP coin and write-up. As with all things Constantine coinage, I turn to Victor Clark for some great insight. Somewhere I record him as saying, "People who expect to find Christian imagery on bronze coins of Constantine will be disappointed. Of approximately 1,363 coins of Constantine I . . . covering the period of 313-337, roughly one percent might be classified as having Christian symbols.” It seems that the sons of Constantine seemed more eager to exploit that Milvian Bridge moment and its associated iconography on their coins, and it seems that the usurper Magnentius upped the ante with his gigantic Chi-Rho: "My Christianity can beat up your Christianity." Here's my "bridge" coin--a worn version I bought in 2006 from "Silenos Coins," then on VCoins, for $31. At the time, I recorded these notes: [B]Notes[/B]: There is much disagreement over what the bridge signifies and the context for this coin’s issue. The general view now is that the coin was a donative distributed to commemorate the formal founding/dedication of Constantinople in 330 AD. However, “LRBC p.25 dates the POP ROMANVS (and the Star in wreath) issue to the Period IV, AD 341-346, after the death of Constantine I AD 337.” Some have suggested that the bridge is the Milvian Bridge where Constantine received his victorious Christian vision. Curtis Clay disputes this reading, arguing that these events would have become a dim memory by 330 AD. Another argument maintains that Constantine wanted to commemorate the peace between Goths and Sarmatians who had fought from the opposite banks of the Danube. Similarly, the bridge might symbolize the unity of East and West, of Rome and Constantinople, and thus the unity of the Populus Romanus. RIC VIII, 21 (C3); [I]Ex: Silenos Coins; 1/06 [ATTACH=full]605561[/ATTACH] [/I][/QUOTE]
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