Constantine the Great HAND OF GOD Antique Roman Pagan Christian Coin 337-348 AD

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ANTIQUE ROMAN COIN
"Hand of God"
Constantine the Great
from 337-348 AD
IN PRESENTATION ALBUM
Amazing coin depicting God reaching out to receive
Constantine "The Great" while he is riding a horse
drawn chariot to heaven after his death!
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similar to the examples shown in the photos.
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OBVERSE:
CONSTANTINE I, VEILED
REVERSE:
CONSTANTINE SITTING AS A CHARIOTEER DRAWN
BY FOUR HORSES, WITH A HAND STRETCHED DOWNWARD
FROM ABOVE TO RECEIVE HIM UP TO HEAVEN
Roman emperor Constantine I, the Great, 307 - 337 AD,
is best known for being the first Christian Roman emperor.
According to the Christian historian Eusebius, the turning point for Christianity’s
rise in Rome is attributed to the Battle of the Milvian Bridge on Oct 28, 312 AD.
Before the battle, Constantine beheld a flaming cross in the sky and the words,
In Hoc Signo Vinces! (In This Sign Ye Shall Conquer). Seeing this as a divine
signal, it is said that Constantine had his soldiers paint the symbol of the Christogram
on their shields. The battle ended with the defeat of the much larger army of his rival,
Maxentius. The following year Constantine issued the historic Edict of Milan (313 AD)
that proclaimed religious toleration throughout the empire; it legalized Christianity,
ended persecution, returned confiscated Church property, and establishes Sunday as a
day of worship. Constantine constructed the new eastern capital of the Roman Empire at
Constantinople in 330 AD. Later, that city would emerge as the seat of power for the
1,000 year reign of the succeeding Byzantine Empire. The Byzantine liturgical
calendar, observed by the modern Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic
Churches of Byzantine rite, lists both Constantine and his mother Helena as saints.
This posthumous coin issue by Constantine’s sons shows a bust of their late father wearing a
customary burial shroud. The coin’s obverse shows how paganism was still popular at this time.
The often partially visible Latin inscription around the obverse perimeter reads: DV
CONSTANTINVS PT AVGG (Divus Constantinus Pater Augustorum: Divine Constantine Father
of the Augusti). Having been deified by the Senate upon his death in 337 AD, Constantine would be
the last emperor to bear the pagan title divus. Eusebius records, "A coin … (had) on one side a
figure of our blessed prince, with head closely veiled; the reverse showed him sitting as a charioteer
drawn by four horses, with a hand stretched downward from above to receive him up to heaven".
Constantine's metamorphosis from pagan to Christian is represented on the reverse. Previous
emperors rode up to heaven in a chariot. However, Constantine was the first to be received by
Manus Dei, the "hand of God". This coin variety is the first coin to ever depict the Christian God.
This coin variety is the first coin
to ever depict the Christian God.
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SPECIFICATIONS:
Coin Diameter: 10-17mm
Album open measures: 10 13/16” x 7 6/16”
Album folded measures: 5 6/16” x 7 6/16
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some photos of different pieces to give you an idea of the coin you will
receive.  These are old coins that were not machine made and
therefore
each one is unique and different.
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