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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 8136624, member: 44316&quot;][ATTACH=full]1417896[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is another CONSTANTINOPOLIS /P R coin. The bust is far from identical to, but similar to, the OP silver piece with &quot;K&quot;. Helena has numerous portrait styles, none of which are close to the OP portrait.&nbsp; Here is one from Siscia that doesn&#039;t have the stephanie (tiara) and therefore is about as close as Helena&#039;s portraits get to the OP portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1417904[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Of course, it would be neat to have a silver coin with Helena commemorating the foundation of Constantinople. (Which is spelled with a &quot;C&quot; on its coins, not &quot;K&quot;.) But there is little evidence that the bust on the OP type really is Helena. (The evidence is mostly that previous writers, wishing the good story were so, have repeated an unfounded conjecture.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Simon Bendall wrote scholarly articles on the anonymous silver types of the 4th-6th centuries, including the OP type, and finds the ones in the best style may be close in time to the foundation of Constantinople c. 330. But he only describes the obverse as &quot;Diademed and draped female bust right.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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