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Message:: [QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 2529538, member: 10613"]A lot of people reference this coin as commemorating the Battle of the Milvian bridge, but I don't think that it does. Primarily because the battle took place 18 years after the issue of this coin, with no Milvian bridge coin issues struck in between. A coin struck this late after an event would not be recognized by many. I believe it is just a generic representation of a bridge, which were crowning achievements of Roman engineering. There was however, quite a large bridge built around this time. Perhaps the POP ROMANVS is alluding to the bridge built over the Danube circa A.D. 328. or just commemorating Roman ingenuity. The bridge linking the banks of the Danube was an engineering marvel and mentioned in several sources-  Aurelius Victor was a historian who lived circa A.D. 320- 390. He also mentioned the bridge in De Caesaribus 13.4 and 41.13. This bridge probably marked the start of a Gothic campaign. Victor said that the bridge was built and then, "camps and forts were strategically placed in many locations." "Constantine the pious crossed the Danube very many times, and made a bridge for it in stone." Chronicon Paschale This bridge was even commemorated on a bronze medallion issued in Rome.[/QUOTE]