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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Smojo, post: 2533056, member: 78058&quot;]I bought this one not for Helena but for Pax on the reverse. I know I said no scrub Pax coins but this one for the price I feel was next to free. The seller pics were not very good but I&#039;ve bought from this seller &amp; the coin in hand was much better than the pics. Was the same for this one, for the money it was worth the chance.</p><p>No its not the best condition, the obverse of Helena is not very clear and the reverse of Pax isn&#039;t the best by any means.</p><p><br /></p><p>I did learn a little bit about Helena. My political Science professor touched lightly on her. After all these years I&#039;m suprised I remember much of that class, taken at that point of my life all I wanted to do was party. Ah what I time that was.</p><p><br /></p><p>Helena or St Helena which ever you prefer was as we all know the mother of Constantine I (The Great).</p><p>What a lot of people don&#039;t know is the influence she had on Constantine &amp; on Christianity. Without her it&#039;s likely Constantine would have grown to be the typical ruler of Rome and Christianity wouldn&#039;t have evolved to be what it is today.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s defiantly worth your time to read up on her if you haven&#039;t already.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is one of my few Pax reverses that I&#039;ve managed to pick up. Seems I&#039;m not the only collector obsessed with her. I find myself in a last minute battle for many of her coins. Some I win but mostly I dont. At least it&#039;s not my only obsession.</p><p><br /></p><p>Helena Augusta</p><p>8 Nov. 324-328/330 AD</p><p>Bill on reduced centenionalis</p><p>15.3mm, 1.37g., Constantinople 337-340 AD</p><p>5th Officina</p><p>Obv: FL ML HE-LENAE AVG, mantle bust right</p><p>Rev: PAX PVBLICA●, Pax standing left , olive branch pointed down in right hand, long scepter transverse in left hand, CONSE in exergue</p><p>Constantinople 33 (same leg. breaks); LRBC I 1046 (same); Hunter V p.&nbsp; 281, 3 (HEL-ENAE) ; SRCV V 17497; Cohen VII 4</p><p>[ATTACH=full]541645[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]541646[/ATTACH] I welcome comments, criticism.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your coins, any coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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