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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IMP Shogun, post: 7522748, member: 114683&quot;]Constantine united, and defended quite successfully, the Roman empire which in any time would be quite an amazing feat. Sure religion, marriage, alliances, betrayals and murder were all tools he used as did every one of his adversaries and just about every emperor before him. It&#039;s hard to set aside our modern view of what is a moral pursuit of power.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fausta was the daughter of Maximian who turned on Constantine and she may have held treasonous resentment while in a marriage of a failed alliance. She ended up getting knocked up by Constantine&#039;s scheming bastard son Crispus and dying during a failed abortion. Had Constantine not executed his bastard son, Crispus likely would&#039;ve repeated the dance and killed everyone else. I find it interesting that Crispus (usually in some moral way) is used as a reason Constantine was an evil ruler, when really he was just a bastard that was given the same chance Constantine himself got. Constantine very easily could&#039;ve been dead at Diocletian&#039;s court, or in any one of the many battles he won while at a minimum assisting in the promulgation of Christianity that continues to this day. Oh and yea, built a city or two.</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as his coins go, the bronze are accessible and a staple of any Late Roman Bronze collection:</p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/7-103-constantine.17222/full?d=1620181566" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/media/ric-viii-london-10.17221/full?lightbox=1&amp;last_edit_date=1620180694" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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