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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3269030, member: 19463&quot;]Constans as the youngest son of Constantine has the fewest coins as Caesar and they have continuous legends.&nbsp; As soon as Constantine died, all three of his sons took the title of Augustus and started using the high respect split legends.&nbsp; None of them would think of admitting a junior status to any of the others including using a continuous legend.&nbsp; I would be interested in seeing any coin of a son as Augustus with continuous legend if such exists.</p><p><br /></p><p>Constans as Caesar under his father </p><p>[ATTACH=full]861822[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Constans as Augustus.&nbsp; Of the few Constans coins in my collection, this one has the shortest legend with the largest break.&nbsp;&nbsp; I do not suspect that there was even greater respect claimed by the wider gap but his brothers could not compete since their names were longer. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]861823[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>None of the sons of Constantine were commemorated on coins issued after their death.&nbsp; This makes sense since all three died while at war with the next emperor.&nbsp; The commemorative coins of the late Constantine I issued by his three sons retained the split legend.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]861830[/ATTACH] </p><p>I believe those same coins had they been issued with continuous legends would have been perceived as an insult to their father and that was not advisable at that time.&nbsp; It is interesting enough that the Christian Constantine was honored as Divus (DV in the obverse legend).&nbsp; That term would be dropped along with the practice of deifying dead emperors as Christian concepts were realized to be inconsistent with the practice.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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