Nice scarcer coin!
I have always been confused by this particular issue. Women never issued coins (except perhaps Severina after her husband's death) so it would have had to have been issued by an emperor wishing to honor her.
Constantius I divorced/ "cast aside" Helena (Constantine's mother) to marry Theodora. As a consequence, Constantine was raised in the court of Diocletian while his father was off with his new wife and making some half siblings for Constantine. The only child of Theodora who issued coins was Haniballianus, whose coins are very rare. She was also the grandmother of the caesar Dalmatius (who was killed in the 337 purge of possible claimants to the throne), the usurper Nepotian, and the future emperor Julian II. Traditionally, her coins are attributed to 337-340, but I just don't see the Constantine boys honoring the mother and grandmother of all the people they just killed?
Also of note is the goddess/personification of Pietas, which seems out of place when the Empire was becoming increasingly Christianized. That almost makes me wonder if either Julian II or Constantius Gallus issued these coins?
Edited by Finn235
10/21/2016 10:44 am
Posted 10/20/2016 08:03 am
Theodora even better.
