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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 24898689, member: 10613&quot;]This coin is even more interesting because the ancient writer Photius tells a story of how Constantine had to fight a lion...even though I don&#039;t believe this event actually happened. I think it is a rhetorical invention meant to make Constantine seem more heroic and compare him to Hercules.</p><p><br /></p><p>“At that time Maximin, governor of Asia Minor,who happened to be there, determined to lay a plot against the youth and set him to fight with a savage lion. But Constantine overcame and slew the beast…”[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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