ROMAN EMPIRE Licinius II 317-324 AD follis Heraclea mint

ROMAN EMPIRE Licinius II 317-324 AD follis Heraclea mint

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ROMAN EMPIRE, Licinius II, Caesar, 317-324 AD, follis, no date (318-24 AD), Heraclea mint, officina 2, Obverse: cuirassed and helmeted bust L, D N VAL LICIN LICINIVS NOB C, Reverse: Jove standing L holding Victory on globe and eagle tipped scepter, eagle with wreath in beak at his feet on left, seated captive on right, IOVI CONSERVATORI, SMH B, XIIΓ, billon, 18mm, 2.67g, SR15407, porous, aXF

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Son of Licinius I, Licinius Junior was made Caesar at the age of 20 months. He was executed following the execution of his father.

In the Imperial Period Roman coinage became an engine for governmental propaganda. All of the themes of the coins are celebratory of some aspect of govermental authority or achievement.

The Roman Republic was founded in response to tyrannical kings. It functioned for several centuries in a kind of balance of rich and poor people (slaves didn’t count). The general idea was that laws would constrain personal power. During the days of Julius Caesar, et al, powerful people became too powerful, and a new system of slightly constrained autocracy, the Empire, developed. The main catalog we use on this web site for Roman coins is Roman Coins and their Values, by David Sear.

Ancient Coins includes Greek and Roman coins and those of neighbors and successors, geographically from Morocco and Spain all the way to Afghanistan. Date ranges for these begin with the world’s earliest coins of the 8th century BC to, in an extreme case, the end of Byzantine Empire, 1453 AD.

 

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