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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 2761820, member: 86498"]Actually the battle occurred on the other side of the bridge. Maxentius for what ever reasons decided to leave the heavily fortified city of Rome cross the bridge and offer battle there. Generally speaking giving battle with a river at your back is a military no-no and Maxentius paid the price. Constantine managed to push back part of Maxentius's army, it routed, and most of the losses occurred when the paniced army tried to cross the bridges a natural choke point. It is little wonder that Constantine would see this as divine intervention. As for the bridge. There is another depiction of a similar looking bridge, this time on aes coins of Trajan. It too has two towers, a single span, but the deck is arched rather than straight on the coins of Trajan. Usually the type is referred to as the "Danube Bridge". However Woytek in his study on the coinage of Trajan suggests the Milvian bridge. As the structure is unnamed there is always the possibility that the bridge is not the Milvian. However, it seems most likely that it is. PS nice coin.[ATTACH=full]634921[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]