Our Caesar Crispus, Who Never Made It Emperor

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jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 798 Posts	Posted Yesterday 5:57 pm This is a common but was a fun one when I identified it, because of the reverse legend. IVL CRISPVS NOB C / CAESARVM NOSTRORVM, struck Siscia. I knew legends about 'our lord' from medieval coins. This was the first roman I noticed as a possible model. Vows for 5 years. He made it that long. His father would only kill him in his tenth year as caesar. Constantine, like most emperors, was not a nice man. Not a very nice portrait, some day I will do better for this common emperor. But it serves as my Crispus. Report this Post to the Staff

Sap Moderator Australia 17051 Posts	Posted Today 8H 54M ago "DN", abbreviation for "dominus noster" (our lord) first came into use on Roman coins during the Tetrarchy, and by the mid-350s "DN" had become the common prefix seen on all Roman coins, and this remained the case well into the Byzantine period. Calling the emperor "dominus" on coins began way back in the time of Aurelian, with a rare reverse type for him and subsequent emperors reading "DEO ET DOMINO" (God and Lord), which is a sentiment obviously blasphemous to use as a title for the emperor in the Christian era. You can also find some coins of Crispus with essentially identical design to your coin, but reverse legend DOMINORVM NOSTRORVM CAESS (Our Lords, the Caesars). Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis Report this Post to the Staff
jecz79 Pillar of the Community Portugal 798 Posts	Posted Today 24M ago Knew about the meaning of the DN but I never paid much attention to the late roman coins. Even if I had some. So this was the first one where I noticed the nostorum spelled out fully. Bridged things to medieval billon coins I have. A thousand years later using similar expressions! Report this Post to the Staff
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