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Constantine I, the Great, AD 307-337. Gold Aureus (5.13 g) minted as Filius Augustorum (AD 308-309) at Thessalonica. Laureate head right of Constantine I with slight beard. Reverse: Constantine in consular robes standing left, holding globe and scepter. RIC 28; Depeyrot 412; C. 115. Of great rarity and importance. A few minor surface blemishes in reverse field. Sharp tetrarchic portait. Extremely Fine. The collapse of Diocletian's carefully constructed tetrarchic system in 307 prompted the senior emperor Galerius to call for a conference at Carnuntum in November of 308, at which the various claimants to imperial power were supposed to restore an orderly division of the empire. Constantine and Maximinus II Daia were each demoted from the rank of Augustus to that of Caesar, a proposition they found intolerable. To mollify them, Galerius proposed in 309 that they each receive the title "Son of the Augusti" (Filius Augustorum). Not surprisingly, both men rejected the meaningless epithet and resumed calling themselves Augusti. Estimated Value $25,000-UP. Ex Goldberg Auction 53 (26 V 09), lot 1930; NAC 31 (26 X 05); Freeman & Sear Fixed Price List 6 (2001), F158; Dreesmann Collection (Spink London, Part I, 13 IV 2000), lot 129; Lanz 28 (7 V 84), lot 761. Categories: Ancient Coins
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