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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4588461, member: 110350&quot;]For anyone still interested in the issue of Constantine II&#039;s legitimacy, here&#039;s a footnote citing a couple of articles on the subject:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436264?read-now=1&amp;seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436264?read-now=1&amp;seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/4436264?read-now=1&amp;seq=2#page_scan_tab_contents</a></p><p><br /></p><p>JOURNAL ARTICLE</p><p>Flavia Maxima Fausta: Some Remarks</p><p>Jan Willem Drijvers</p><p><br /></p><p>Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte</p><p>Bd. 41, H. 4 (1992), pp. 500-506 (7 pages)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136200[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is an extended discussion of the issue in a PhD thesis I found online. After reviewing the original sources on the issue, the author concludes that Constantine II was, in fact, a son of Fausta. (Footnotes at end of excerpt.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136201[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136202[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136203[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136204[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136205[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136206[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136207[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136208[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136209[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>If this conclusion is correct, then Sear is incorrect, and the identity of the two infants whom Fausta holds on the reverse of so many of her coins remains something of a mystery. Although, as I mentioned in my previous post, most authorities (with the exception of Sear and his RCV catalogue) have taken the position that the two are supposed to represent her two oldest sons, namely Constantine II (assuming his legitimacy) and Constantius II -- despite the fact that they were well beyond infancy when the coins were issued in 324-326 AD -- with her actual infant at the time, Constans, omitted from the coins for unknown reasons. Even though it would have been simple enough to portray Fausta holding her two younger sons, with the third and oldest (Constantine II) standing by her side.&nbsp; (There are certainly coins of Faustina Jr. depicting her with more than two children.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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