ROMAN EMPIRE Licinius I AD 308-324 BI Reduced Nummus IOVI CONSERVATORI NCG XF

ROMAN EMPIRE NGC XF

Licinius I AD 308-324 BI Reduced Nummus

IOVI CONSERVATORI “protector of emperors”

Licinius I, AE follis, Heraclea. AD 313.

Obv: IMP C VAL LICIN LICINIVS PF AVG, Laureate head right

Ref: IOVI CONS-ERVATORI AVGG, Jupiter standing left, chlamys hanging from left shoulder, holding Victory on globe and sceptre, eagle at foot left. Γ in right field. Mintmark SMHT.

Ref: RIC VI Heraclea 73; Sear 15240.

Licinius was a partner and rival to Constantine the Great, serving as the Eastern Emperor of Rome. His marriage to Constantine’s half-sister Constantia forestalled civil war. The wedding provided the backdrop for one of Constantine’s greatest accomplishments, the Edict of Milan, which legalized Christianity in the Empire. The honeymoon did not last. In time, Licinius, too, was executed on the orders of his brother-in-law—hung to death after his defeat at the Battle of Chrysopolis.

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