Nummus - Crispus as Caesar VOT V MVLT X, Thessalonica

The VOT V MVLT X legend records the formal vow ceremony in which Crispus — Constantine's eldest son, then serving as Caesar — pledged the next five years of his reign and anticipated the tenth. These vota coinage issues were tied to specific administrative moments, not minted on a rolling basis. Thessalonica had only recently been absorbed into Constantine's sphere following the defeat of Licinius's ally Valens in 316, making this mint's early Constantinian output a direct product of post-war territorial reorganization.

Crispus would be executed on his father's orders in 326, his name subsequently struck from the record in a damnatio memoriae.