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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 24669440, member: 10613&quot;][ATTACH=full]1573208[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">Constantine I</font></p><p><font size="4">circa A.D. 330</font></p><p><font size="4">20mm&nbsp; &nbsp; 3.1g</font></p><p><font size="4">CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG; Rosette-diademed head right, with slight drapery on left shoulder.</font></p><p><font size="4">S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI; Victory standing front, head to left, holding wreath in her right hand and palm frond in her left.</font></p><p><font size="4">In ex. CONSA</font></p><p><font size="4">RIC VII Constantinople –</font></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I just got this coin and am very pleased to add it to my Constantinople tray. It&#039;s currently the only known example of this type and it copies a denarius of Trajan, including the slight drapery. It is the second time though that a Trajan coin was copied in bronze for Constantine. The first time was in A.D. 312 with the S P Q R OPTIMO PRINCIPI Legionary eagle between two vexilla.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This coin was likely to have been struck in A.D. 330 to commemorate the founding of Constantinopolis. I have to wonder how many people would have even known that this coin was modeled on Trajan some 200 hundred years later; but given the rarity, this coin was most likely not intended for general circulation.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>below is the Trajan coin that it copies</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1573209[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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