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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 2798880, member: 75937&quot;]Theodora was the daughter of Afranius Hanniballianus, Diocletian&#039;s praetorian prefect. She entered into a dynastic marriage in the 280s with Constantius I. However, to marry her, Constantius had to sever his ties to his former wife (or consort), Helena, the mother of Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The marriage produced six children--three daughters and three sons, none of whom acheived imperial rank. Moreover, her title Augusta is unattested during her lifetime and was probably awarded posthumously.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, her grandchildren figured prominently in Roman history as the victims of a dynastic cleansing in AD 337, which nearly made her branch of the family extinct.&nbsp; These grandchildren were: Delmatius, Hanniballianus, Constantius Gallus, Julian II, Licinius II, and Nepotian.</p><p><br /></p><p>Coins of Theodora are restricted to single type of AE-4 struck at Trier, Rome, and Constantinople. They were posthumously issued along with those commemorating Helena, the woman with whom Constantius I severed relations in order to marry Theodora. The greater irony is they were minted under the authority of her step-grandsons, Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II, the three emperors who were responsible for the dynastic purge that essentially wiped out her branch of the family!</p><p><br /></p><p>Post anything you feel is relevant!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]652016[/ATTACH]</p><p>Theodora, AD 293-306</p><p>Roman AE-4; 1.12 g, 15 mm</p><p>Unknown mint, AD 337-340</p><p>Obv: FL MAX THEODORAE AVG, diademed and draped bust right</p><p>Rev: PEITAS ROMANA, Pietas standing right, child in arms; mintmark off the flan</p><p>Refs: cf. RIC 50; Sear 17500-17506; Cohen 4[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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