#CONSTANTINE THE GREAT COINAGE PLUS#
If there is time, we also look at dollar bills, which have even more symbols, plus more Latin phrases than any coin of Constantine’s. (The quarters with state symbols are especially good for this.) They are often surprised at how many symbols are crammed into such a small space. Many can’t, even though they might see coins every day, so we take a closer look at them.
I also often ask them to describe the symbols on U.S. Several coin types are discussed to demonstrate the. Ae Follis - Constantine Ist The Great ( 308 to. Ae Follis - Constantine Ist The Great ( 306 to 307 ) - Alexandria. RIC VI 63 (Alexandria) - 11,3 grams - 27 mm - R. Questions I pose to students as they look at this coin: What do these coins portray about Constantine? Why might he have thought it important to issue coins with symbols such as these? Why would coins, especially copper ones, be an effective means of communicating ideas? After becoming the sole ruler, Constantine then shifted the power of the Roman Empire to Constantinople. Ae Follis - Constantine Ist The Great ( 306 to 307 ) - Alexandria. By Constantines depiction of Sol the sun god on his coinage, it served as a symbolism of Constantine being granted the approval and right to rule. Obverse: CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG, Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right. The bottom of the labarum is piercing a snake, an animal with deep meaning in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Ae Follis - Constantine Ist The Great ( 335 to 337 ) - Alexandria. The back shows a labarum, the special military standard that was made for the army after Constantine’s vision, with the chi (X) rho (P) symbol on top, a symbol invented by Constantine to stand for Christ. On the front it shows Constantine, wearing the laurel wreath that was standard in depictions of Roman emperors. This is a copper alloy coin, minted in Constantinople in 327, the type of coin that ordinary people would have used for business transactions. Constantine erected large monuments to his rule, most notably the Arch of Constantine in Rome, but he also portrayed his religious sentiments and celebrated his reign in smaller ways, through coins and portraits.
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