CONSTANTINOPOLI / VICTORY 330-333 AD / CONSTANTINOPLE Mint Æ Follis +COA GGcoins

Description

”CONSTANTINOPOLI”
“
CONSTANTINOPLE
”
City Commemorative
Minted:
(330-333 AD.)
Reign of:
Constintine I
Æ Follis;
Size:
18.3mm. /
Weight;
1.6gm
Description:
Here is an Ancient & Scarce Æ Follis struck
as a City Commemmorative at the
CONSTANTINOPLE mint...
Obverse: CONSTAN-TINOPOLI,
laureate helmeted bust
of Constantinopolis facing left, w/ sceptre...
Reverse:
Victory
standing Left, foot on prow,  holding
sceptre
and resting left hand on shield..
. CONSZ
in exergue.
Ref:
RIC VII Constantinople 63
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HISTORY:
Constantine I
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 victory on a prow type alludes to the naval victory of Crispus and his subsequent capture
of Byzantium (soon to be re-named Constantinople). Zosimus said that Constantine's fleet
had 200 ships and Licinius had 350 ships. Zosimus might have exaggerated, but all sources
agreed that Constantine's fleet was greatly outnumbered. What accounted for the surprise
victory of Constantine's forces? Could it have been that Constantine had better trained sailors...
maybe divine providence? A papyrus letter from circa A.D. 323, gives an answer. The letter is
from a procurator who said that the government of Egypt had an urgent requirement of box
and acanthus wood for repair of the men-at-war vessels in the arsenals of Memphis and Babylon.
Egypt sent a total of 130 ships to serve in the navy of Licinius, but it seems that they were all
old tubs!
The description in RIC describes Constantinopolis as holding reversed spear . This object might
actually be a scepter, rather than a reversed spear. Compare the object with the scepter that the
victory on the reverse is holding. The ends are alike--they both end in small globes.  On some coins,
Constantinopolis is holding what might be considered a cross- scepter with a globe (often topped
with a smaller globe). This may or may not have had Christian significance, but Constantine first
used this symbolism in A.D. 315 on a silver medallion, which also has a chi-rho on the crest,
issued in Ticinum.
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The Coin:
A very pleasing and quite rare example of a later Roman
Bronze AE Follis
,
it saw
little use before it found a safe place
to wait out the centuries.
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