- CLEANED/UNCLEANED : Uncleaned
- CERTIFICATION NUMBER : 2075177-036
- CERTIFICATION : NGC
- GRADE : AU
- YEAR : 316-326
- COMPOSITION : Silvered Bronze
- RULER : Crispus
- DENOMINATION : Nummus
- KM NUMBER : 2075177-036
- ERA : Ancient
Ancient Rome.
Silvered Bronze NUMMUS (FOLLIS)
CRISPUS – 1ST SON OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
AS CAESAR (JUNIOR EMPEROR) - WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
GRADED NGC AU
OBV: LAUREATE BUST OF CRISPUS LEFT.
REV: CAMP GATE WITH 3 TURRETS
FLAVIUS JULIUS CRISPUS WAS THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE’S FIRST
BORN SON BY MINERVINA. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, CRISPUS’ PARENTS HAD A VERY LOVING AND
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP, ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN IF SHE WAS A CONCUBINE, OR IF THEY
WERE MARRIED. REGARDLESS, AND PROBABLY FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE, CONSTANTINE
MARRIED FAUSTA, DAUGHETR OF HIS CO-EMPEROR AND FELLOW TETRARCH, MAXIMIAN, IN
307, AND SET MINERVINA ASIDE. INTERESTINGLY, CONSTATINE’S FATHER HAD SET HIS
MOTHER HELENA ASIDE, DIVORCING HER TO ALSO MARRY A DAUGHTER OF MAXIMIAN FOR
POLITICAL REASONS.
CRISPUS WAS RAISED AT HIS FATHER’S SIDE IN GAUL. CONSTANTINE WAS APPARENTLY A
PROTECTIVE, LOVING AND TRUSTING FATHER. BY 317, ONLY CONSTATNTNE AND HIS
BROTHER-IN-LAW, LICINIUS, REMAINED AS RULING AUGUSTI IN THE WEST. THEY JOINTLY
PROCLAIMED CRISPUS, CRISPUS’ YOUNG HALF-BROTHER CONSTANTIUS, AND LICINIUS’ SON
LICINIUS JUNIOR, AS CO-CAESARS. CONSTANTINE MADE CRISPUS COMMANDER IN GAUL.
CRISPUS SET UP HIS RESIDENCE IN AUGUSTA TREVERORUM (TRIER), AND WAS A VICTORIUOS
LEADER IN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NEARBY GERMANIC TRIBES. HE WAS ADORED BY THE ROMAN
LEGIONS. HE LATER COMMANDED 200 SHIPS FOR HIS FATHER AT THE BATTLE OF THE
HELLESPONT, WHICH WAS FOUGHT AGAINST LICINIUS, AND DESTROYED THE ENEMY FLEET
WHICH GREATLY OUTNUMBERED HIS OWN. ANOTHER LAND VICTORY WAS HIS AT CHRYSOPOLIS,
AS CO-LEADER OF HIS FATHER’S LOYAL LEGIONS AGAINST LICINIUS, AND HIS
CONTRIBUTIONS HELPED SECURE HIS FATHER’S FINAL TRIUMPH OVER HIS RIVAL.
SINCE HIS HALF-SIBLINGS WERE SO YOUNG, AND HIS POPULARITY, AND THE GRATITUDE OF
HIS FATHER WAS SO GREAT, IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE CRISPUS WAS
MADE HEIR APPARENT TO HIS FATHER’S THRONE.
UNFORTUNATELY, HIS BRILLIANT CAREER TOOK A VERY SHARP AND
BIZARRE TURN, WHEN HIS STEP-MOTHER, THE EMPRESS FAUSTA, WENT TO CONSTANTINE AND
ACCUSED CRISPUS OF TRYING TO RAPE HER. FAUSTA'S MOTIVE SEEMS CLEAR, THAT HER
SONS WERE IN DANGER OF BEING PASSED OVER IN FAVOR OF CRISPUS, OF WHOM SHE WAS
EXTREMELY JEALOUS. SURPRISINGLY, FAUSTA CONVINCED CONSTANTINE OF HIS BELOVED
ELDEST SON’S GUILT, AND CRISPUS WAS ARRESTED, CONVICTED, AND EXECUTED.
A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE TRUTH SURFACED THAT FAUSTA HAD LIED TO DESTROY CRISPUS,
AND CONSTANTINE HAD HER BOILED ALIVE.
Ancient Rome.
Silvered Bronze NUMMUS (FOLLIS)
CRISPUS – 1ST SON OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT
AS CAESAR (JUNIOR EMPEROR) - WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE
GRADED NGC AU
OBV: LAUREATE BUST OF CRISPUS LEFT.
REV: CAMP GATE WITH 3 TURRETS
FLAVIUS JULIUS CRISPUS WAS THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE’S FIRST
BORN SON BY MINERVINA. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, CRISPUS’ PARENTS HAD A VERY LOVING AND
PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP, ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN IF SHE WAS A CONCUBINE, OR IF THEY
WERE MARRIED. REGARDLESS, AND PROBABLY FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE, CONSTANTINE
MARRIED FAUSTA, DAUGHETR OF HIS CO-EMPEROR AND FELLOW TETRARCH, MAXIMIAN, IN
307, AND SET MINERVINA ASIDE. INTERESTINGLY, CONSTATINE’S FATHER HAD SET HIS
MOTHER HELENA ASIDE, DIVORCING HER TO ALSO MARRY A DAUGHTER OF MAXIMIAN FOR
POLITICAL REASONS.
CRISPUS WAS RAISED AT HIS FATHER’S SIDE IN GAUL. CONSTANTINE WAS APPARENTLY A
PROTECTIVE, LOVING AND TRUSTING FATHER. BY 317, ONLY CONSTATNTNE AND HIS
BROTHER-IN-LAW, LICINIUS, REMAINED AS RULING AUGUSTI IN THE WEST. THEY JOINTLY
PROCLAIMED CRISPUS, CRISPUS’ YOUNG HALF-BROTHER CONSTANTIUS, AND LICINIUS’ SON
LICINIUS JUNIOR, AS CO-CAESARS. CONSTANTINE MADE CRISPUS COMMANDER IN GAUL.
CRISPUS SET UP HIS RESIDENCE IN AUGUSTA TREVERORUM (TRIER), AND WAS A VICTORIUOS
LEADER IN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NEARBY GERMANIC TRIBES. HE WAS ADORED BY THE ROMAN
LEGIONS. HE LATER COMMANDED 200 SHIPS FOR HIS FATHER AT THE BATTLE OF THE
HELLESPONT, WHICH WAS FOUGHT AGAINST LICINIUS, AND DESTROYED THE ENEMY FLEET
WHICH GREATLY OUTNUMBERED HIS OWN. ANOTHER LAND VICTORY WAS HIS AT CHRYSOPOLIS,
AS CO-LEADER OF HIS FATHER’S LOYAL LEGIONS AGAINST LICINIUS, AND HIS
CONTRIBUTIONS HELPED SECURE HIS FATHER’S FINAL TRIUMPH OVER HIS RIVAL.
SINCE HIS HALF-SIBLINGS WERE SO YOUNG, AND HIS POPULARITY, AND THE GRATITUDE OF
HIS FATHER WAS SO GREAT, IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE CRISPUS WAS
MADE HEIR APPARENT TO HIS FATHER’S THRONE.
UNFORTUNATELY, HIS BRILLIANT CAREER TOOK A VERY SHARP AND
BIZARRE TURN, WHEN HIS STEP-MOTHER, THE EMPRESS FAUSTA, WENT TO CONSTANTINE AND
ACCUSED CRISPUS OF TRYING TO RAPE HER. FAUSTA'S MOTIVE SEEMS CLEAR, THAT HER
SONS WERE IN DANGER OF BEING PASSED OVER IN FAVOR OF CRISPUS, OF WHOM SHE WAS
EXTREMELY JEALOUS. SURPRISINGLY, FAUSTA CONVINCED CONSTANTINE OF HIS BELOVED
ELDEST SON’S GUILT, AND CRISPUS WAS ARRESTED, CONVICTED, AND EXECUTED.
A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE TRUTH SURFACED THAT FAUSTA HAD LIED TO DESTROY CRISPUS,
AND CONSTANTINE HAD HER BOILED ALIVE.
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