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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2255377, member: 57495&quot;]I believe that <a href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/CONSTANTINE_THE_GREAT_THE_COINS_SPEAK.Pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.constantinethegreatcoins.com/CONSTANTINE_THE_GREAT_THE_COINS_SPEAK.Pdf" rel="nofollow">this</a> is a dealer&#039;s thesis, but it does quote Eusebius (on page 15) regarding this pose:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>&quot;How deeply his soul was impressed by the power of divine faith may be understood from the circumstance that he directed his likeness to be stamped on the golden coin of the empire with eyes uplifted as in the posture of prayer to God: and this money became current throughout the Roman world.&quot;</i></p><p>Eusebius 4:15</p><p><br /></p><p>Constantine was probably a less than pious ruler on occasion (or to anonymously quote someone I was e-mailing recently, &quot;a vain, egoistic, greedy, thieving, dishonest man - and damn his memory&quot;), so part of the appeal for me was the irony <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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