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CONSTANTNE I **THE GREAT** ROMAN EMPEROR COIN (SAINT CONSTANTINE) WITH CHRISTIAN CROSS ON THE ALTAR - NGC GRADED CHOICE VERY FINE **EXTREMELY RARE COIN**. THESE COINS ARE KNOW AS BI-NUMMUS THE SILVER COINS WERE KNOWN AS DENARIUS. SOME BI-NUMMUS COINS CONTAIN 4% SILVER (SILVER PLATED CONSTANTINE COINS WHICH WERE PERMITTED) BY CONSTANTINE CONSTANTINE I COINS ARE NOT HARD TO FIND. HOWEVER, FINDING ONE WITH A CHRISTIAN CROSS IS VERY RARE AND THIS COIN\'S CROSS IS VERY DISTINCTIVE (SEE REVERSE OF COIN ON THE ALTAR AT THE BOTTOM CENTER OF THE COIN) THIS IS ONE OF THE BETTER COINS YOU WILL FIND, IT IS WELL ROUNDED AND EXTREMELY DETAILED.
THERE ARE ALSO COINS IN THE EARLIER YEARS WHERE CONSTANTINE I COINS WERE DONE BY THE MINTERS OF THOSE COINS USING THE ROMAN god SoI AND THE CHRISTIAN CROSS (NO DOUBT THE MINTERS OF THESE COINS WERE PLAYING BOTH SIDES OF THE FENCE) I QUESTION WHETHER THE MINTERS OF CONSTANTINE I COINS EVEN WANTED TO BE KNOWN FOR DOING THE CHRISTIAN CROSS, SINCE CONSTANTINE I WAS THE FIRST ROMAN EMPEROR TO ALLOW THE PRACTICE OF CATHOLISM AND SINCE THEY WERE NOT SURE WHETHER MINTING THESE CHRISTIAN CROSS COINS WOULD CONTINUE AFTER CONSTANTINE I, LEADING THEM TO BE PUT TO DEATH, (THE CHRISTIAN CROSS WAS ASSOCIATED WITH JESUS AND HIS DEATH IN APPROXIMATELY THE SECOND CENTURY), HOWEVER, THE COINS DID CONTINUE TO BE MINTED BY HIS SONS WHO BECAME RULERS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE AFTER HIS DEATH AND THOSE COINS ARE EASIER TO FIND WITH THE CHRISTIAN CROSS ON THEM.
CONSTANTINE I HAS HIS PORTRAIT DEPICTED ON THE OBVERSE OF THE COIN, WITH HIS NAME ENCIRCLING HIS PORTRAIT. THE COIN WAS MINTED IN TICINUM NOW MODERN DAY PAVIA, ITALY. I OPINE THAT THE VATICAN MAY HAVE ACQUIRED MOST ALL OF THESE COINS WITH CHRISTIAN CROSSES ON THE ALTAR TO PERHAPS GIVE THEM TO CARDINALS, BISHOPS, PRIEST, ETC., YOU JUST CAN NOT FIND THESE COINS. WHAT COULD BE A MORE DISTINCTIVE ARTIFACT OF THE MEMORY OF JESUS, BY THE ROMAN EMPIRE ONLY 300 YEARS AFTER THE TIME OF JESUS\'S CRUCIFICATION. IT IS AN INCREDIBLE REMEMBRANCE OF THE FACT THAT JESUS TRULY WORKED HIS MINISTRY ON THIS EARTH CONSTANTINE\'S MOTHER: HELENA (SAINT HELENA), FOUND THE TRUE CROSS OF JESUS (ACTUALLY ALL THREE CROSSES OF THAT GOOD FRIDAY) AND HOW IT WAS DETERMINED WHICH CROSS WAS JESUS\'S CROSS IS ANOTHER INCREDIBLE DOCUMENTED STORY (LOOK UP HER HISTORY). THIS COIN HAS BEEN AUTHENTICADED AND GRADED BY NUMISMATIC GUARANTY CORPORATION (ANCIENTS) IN CHOICE FINE CONDITION. THIS COIN IS THE LAST ONE I HAVE LEFT WITH THE CHRISTIAN CROSS ON THE ALTAR AND DOUBT SERIOUSLY I WILL BE ABLE TO EVER FIND ANOTHER ONE THIS GOOD OR EVEN I COULD FIND ANOTHER ONE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF CONTERFEIT COINS OUT THERE FOR SELL WHICH LOOK VERY GOOD AND I HAVE EVEN PURCHASED A FEW OF THEM (COINS UNCERTIFIED, THAT WERE NOT AUTHENTICATED BY THE TWO MAJOR GRADERS NGC AND ANACS), SO I KNOW! ALSO, THE GRADERS OF ANCIENT ROMAN COINS HAVE DETECTED REPRODUCTIONS OF ROMAN COINS BY THE COUNTRIES/PROVINCES THE ROMANS CONQUERED AT THAT TIME, THUS, THEY WILL NOT BE CERTIFIED AS ANCIENT ROMAN COINS. THIS IS A GREAT FIND AND WILL BE A CHERISHED ANCIENT RELIC OF THE REMEMBRANCE OF CONSTANTINE I WHO\'S FAITH IN JESUS CHRIST (SEE MILVIAN BRIDGE BATTLE) WAS SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE AND BEYOND! THE 1,700 YEAR OLD COIN PHOTOGRAGHED IS THE CERTIFIED COIN YOU WILL RECIEVE, BEWARE OF UNCERTIFIED COINS NOT GRADED AND AUTHENTICADED BY NGC OR ANACS, AI is very good at replications..
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