AN ANCIENT COIN CONSTANTINE 1 THE GREAT 306-337 AD--Guaranteed authentic

CONSTANTINE I THE GREAT (306-337). Commemorative Series. Follis. Heraclea. Obv: VRBS ROMA. Helmeted and mantled bust left.  Suckling twins Romulus and Remus; two stars above. RIC 114...

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   Constantine and his sons issued a few different types of commemoratives from 330-346. These were issued to mark the foundation of Constantinople and to also re-affirm Rome as the traditional center of the Empire. Thirteen mints produced these types: Trier, Lugdunum (Lyons), Arelate (Arles), Aquileia, Rome, Siscia, Thessalonica, Heraclea, Constantinople, Nicomedia, Cyzicus, Antioch and Alexandria. The two most common are the CONSTANTINOPOLIS (Victory on a prow) and VRBS ROMA (wolf and twins) types. The female figure on the obverse is the personification of Constantinople or Rome. The wolf and twins type depict Romulus and Remus (the founders of Rome) being suckled by the she-wolf. The two stars on the reverse represent the dioscuri ( the twins Castor and Pollux).