April 12, 2024
CONSTANS AD 324-350 SILVER MADALLION REPLICA 40mm
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CONSTANS AD 324-350 SILVER MADALLION REPLICA 40mm CONSTANS AD 324-350 SILVER MADALLION REPLICA 40mm CONSTANS AD 324-350 SILVER MADALLION REPLICA 40mm Obv: FL IVL CONS-TANS P F AVG Diademed bust right Rev: TRIVMFATOR GENT IVMBARBBARARVM Flavius Julius Constans, third and youngest son of Constantine I and Fausta, was born between 320 and 323 A.D. Primary sources for the life and reign of Constans I are scarce. To reconstruct his life and career, one must draw on a variety of references in both fourth century and later works. Raised as a Christian, he was made a Caesar on 25 December 333 A.D. Constans I and his two brothers, after the death of their father on 22 May 337 and the subsequent "massacre of the princes" in which many other relatives were purged, met in the first part of September 337 in Pannonia to re-divide the empire among themselves. T they were acclaimed Augusti by the army. Constans' new realm included Italy, Africa, Illyricum, Macedonia, and Achaea. Shortly before his father's death, Constans' engagement to Olympias, the daughter of the Praetorian Prefect Ablabius, was announced; although the match was never solemnized because of political reasons. It would appear that Constans was successful in the military sp Following his accession to the purple in 337, he seems to have won a victory over the Sarmatians. In 340
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