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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4589004, member: 56653&quot;]The reason why Constans is missing from the picture in 326 might have something to do with the way Constantine I envisioned his vicennalia and dynastic legacy in 325-326. The two sons Fausta holds in this series are also her two sons that had already been raised to the rank of Caesar by 325, when the vicennalia started in the East, and by 326 when this SPES REIPVBLICAE type was minted and the celebrations moved to Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dynastic issues struck for this occasion also mark the caesarship of the two brothers, with apparently more coinage minted in the name of Constantine II than for Constantius II, but the two are shown as brothers, presented to the world with the same accolades -- and, as far as coinage goes, much more accolades than were reserved for Crispus, whose dynastic coinage is shorter (he dies by summer 326, but his dynastic coinage is shorter even at Antioch in 325).</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are the two brothers in Rome from either July 326 (RIC VII) or early 329 (Lars Ramskold)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136355[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1136357[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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