Coin Info:
Emperor: Constantius II - 317 361
Denomination: AE 4
Diameter / Weight: 10 mm / 1.70 gm
Obverse Inscription: FL IVL CONSTANTIUS NOB C
Obverse Translation: Flavius Julius Constantius Most Noble Caesar
Obverse Description: Head Right, Diademed, Draped Cuirassed
Reverse Inscription: FEL TEMP REPARATIO
Reverse Translation: The Restoration of Happy Times
Reverse Description: Soldier Stabbing Falling Horseman
Mint Location: Unknown
Exergue Markings: Unknown
Die Orientation: Unknown
Biography:
Flavius Iiulius Constantius was born at Sermium in province of Pannonia. People claim that he ordered his soldiers to kill his family but the people who said this were often condensending about him. This act was called the massacre if 337. Meeting at Sirmium not long after the massacre, the three brothers of the constantius family proceeded to divide the Roman Empire among them, according to their father's will. Constantine II receive Brittania, Gual and Hispania; Constans Italia, Africa, Illyricum, Thrace, Macedon and Achaea; and Constantius the East. They did this in respect of their fathers will. Constantius II died of a fever in Mopsuestia. Just before he announced Julian as his successor.
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