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Aureus - Constantine I PRINCIPI IVVENTVT, Rome
| Issuer | Roman Empire (27 BC - 395 AD) |
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| Year | 307 |
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| Weight | 4.83 g |
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| Obverse lettering | CONSTANTINVS NOB C |
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| Reverse lettering | PRINCIPI - IVVENTVT PR |
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307 AD was a year of cascading dynastic crisis. Following the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian, Severus II held the western empire only briefly before Maxentius seized Rome and had him killed. Constantine — still in the northwest, controlling Britain and Gaul — needed legitimacy badly. The PRINCIPI IVVENTVTIS title, traditionally conferred on imperial heirs designate, was a deliberate political signal: not yet Augustus in Rome's eyes, but positioning himself as the rightful next generation of power.
The Rome mint's output in this year is notably irregular, reflecting the city's turbulent change of hands under Maxentius.