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Nummus - Crispus PROVIDENTIAE CAESS, Nicomedia
| Issuer | Roman Imperial Mint, Nicomedia |
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| Year | 324-325 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | A camp gate depicted frontally with two flanking turrets, each surmounted by a conical finial, and a central arched gateway without doors; the gate body is articulated with multiple horizontal courses of masonry rendered in a schematic style. A six-pointed star appears in the upper field above the gate, serving as a celestial emblem of divine providence. The reverse legend PROVIDEN-TIAE CAESS is distributed around the periphery, and the mint mark appears in the exergue. A beaded border frames the design. |
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Crispus was Caesar under his father Constantine I and, by 324, had just delivered the decisive naval victory at the Hellespont that destroyed Licinius's fleet — effectively ending the last civil war of the divided empire. The PROVIDENTIAE CAESS coinage issued at Nicomedia in the immediate aftermath celebrated that reunification, struck at a mint that had until very recently been operating under Licinian authority. Within two years of this coin's production, Constantine had Crispus executed at Pola, his name subjected to damnatio memoriae and systematically erased from monuments across the empire.