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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 3143072, member: 10613&quot;]This coin intersects a couple of recent topics. There have been a few Constantinopolis topics and one about &quot;How poor does a coin need to be before it&#039;s not good enough for you?&quot; Well this coin is in pretty rough condition but it is also fairly rare, so I was happy to pick it up.</p><p><br /></p><p>some more on the Constantinoplis type from my page-</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/" rel="nofollow">http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/comm/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The victory on a prow type alludes to the naval victory of Crispus and his subsequent capture of Byzantium (soon to be re-named Constantinople). Zosimus said that Constantine&#039;s fleet had 200 ships and Licinius had 350 ships. Zosimus might have exaggerated, but all sources agreed that Constantine&#039;s fleet was greatly outnumbered. What accounted for the surprise victory of Constantine&#039;s forces? Could it have been that Constantine had better trained sailors...maybe divine providence? A papyrus letter from circa A.D. 323, gives an answer. The letter is from a procurator who said that the government of Egypt had an urgent requirement of box and acanthus wood for repair of the men-at-war vessels in the arsenals of Memphis and Babylon. Egypt sent a total of 130 ships to serve in the navy of Licinius, but it seems that they were all old tubs!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Constantinopolis</p><p>Commemorative </p><p>A.D. 337- 340</p><p>15mm&nbsp; 1.6gm</p><p>CONSTANTINOPOLIS; laureate, helmeted, wearing imperial mantle, holding scepter.</p><p>VICTORIA AVG; Victory stg. on prow, holding wreath and palm.</p><p>in exergue R ✶ E</p><p>RIC VIII Rome 31</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]803753[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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