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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3163622, member: 56859&quot;]This is not my area but I can point you to some resources.&nbsp; [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER] is a Constantine expert (even did his master&#039;s thesis on the man) and maintains a <a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/" rel="nofollow">website</a> and <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/victors_imperial_coins-208/ancient-coins/Default.aspx?" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/stores/victors_imperial_coins-208/ancient-coins/Default.aspx?" rel="nofollow">online coin store</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp; For your coin type, Victor notes the following:</p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">&quot;After Constantine died in 337, his sons issued posthumous coins in honor of their father. Constantine was the last Emperor to be consecrated and deified on coins. Eusebius also wrote about one of these posthumous coins:</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="color: #0000ff">&#039;At the same time coins were struck portraying the Blessed One on the obverse in the form of one with head veiled, on the reverse like a charioteer on a quadriga, being taken up by a right hand stretched out to him from above.&#039; <i>Life of Constantine </i> IV 73&quot;</span></p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>In <i>Coinage and History of the Roman Empire</i>, Vol. 1, David Vagi notes that &quot;<span style="color: #0000ff">commemorative coins struck after Constantine&#039;s death are limited to the smallest and least-valuable denomination, the reduced nummus of the AE4 module.&nbsp; As a perfect reflection of his institutionalization of Christianity through a gradual transition from paganism, the most common piece shows Constantine driving a quadriga of horses (in the manner of the sun-god Sol) skyward toward the hand of God (the <i>manus Dei</i>) which emerges from the clouds to receive him into heaven.</span>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>...</p><p><br /></p><p>Correcting for inflation, your coin in today&#039;s GBP cost ~£14.68 (~18.65 USD).&nbsp; Compared to the asking prices for the <a href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&amp;searchQuery=constantine+quadriga+hand+of+god&amp;searchQueryExclude=&amp;searchCategory=0&amp;searchCategoryLevel=2&amp;searchCategoryAncient=True&amp;searchCategoryUs=True&amp;searchCategoryWorld=True&amp;searchCategoryMedieval=False&amp;searchBetween=0&amp;searchBetweenAnd=0&amp;searchDate=&amp;searchUseThesaurus=True&amp;searchDisplayCurrency=&amp;searchDisplay=1&amp;searchIdStore=0&amp;searchQueryAnyWords=&amp;searchExactPhrase=&amp;searchTitleAndDescription=True&amp;searchDateType=0&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;SearchOnSale=False&amp;Unassigned=False" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.vcoins.com/en/Search.aspx?search=true&amp;searchQuery=constantine+quadriga+hand+of+god&amp;searchQueryExclude=&amp;searchCategory=0&amp;searchCategoryLevel=2&amp;searchCategoryAncient=True&amp;searchCategoryUs=True&amp;searchCategoryWorld=True&amp;searchCategoryMedieval=False&amp;searchBetween=0&amp;searchBetweenAnd=0&amp;searchDate=&amp;searchUseThesaurus=True&amp;searchDisplayCurrency=&amp;searchDisplay=1&amp;searchIdStore=0&amp;searchQueryAnyWords=&amp;searchExactPhrase=&amp;searchTitleAndDescription=True&amp;searchDateType=0&amp;searchMaxRecords=100&amp;SearchOnSale=False&amp;Unassigned=False" rel="nofollow">same type of coin on Vcoins</a>, it looks like it has gained in value... not that most of us pay much attention to such things since we&#039;re far too attached to our coins to sell them <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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