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The Famous and Historic Milvian Bridge

440, Lot: 503. Estimate $100.
Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Commemorative Series. AD 330-354. Æ (13mm, 1.17 g, 6h). Special issue for the dedication of the newly expanded city of Constantinople. Constantinople mint, 4th officina. Struck under Constantine I, AD 330. POP ROMANVS, laureate and draped bust of Genius of the Roman People left, cornucopia over shoulder / Milvian Bridge with tower at each end over flowing water of the Tiber River; CONS//Δ above bridge. RIC VIII 21; LRBC 1066; Vagi 3043. VF, dark green and red-brown patina.


The reverse depicts the famed Milvian Bridge which carried the Via Flaminia over the Tiber, outside Rome, where Maxentius made his stand against Constantine’s forces in October of AD 312. Tradition holds that it was prior to this battle that Constantine had a vision that would lead to both his victory over Maxentius and his conversion to Christianity.