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Crispus Caesar, small bronze follis
The obverse of a small bronze follis (showing remnants of silvering), 18 mm, struck in Alexandria, Egypt, in the name of Crispus, as Caesar 317- 326 AD, under his father the Roman emperor Constantine I "the Great".
Crispus is wearing a laurel wreath in his hair, and wears a cloak over his cuirass (armor). The legend declares him NOB CAES, for Noble Caesar.
References include RIC vii, 35, which dates this issue to 325- 326 and rates this coin's availability as "R1", rare, but the least rare of the rare.
Crispus Caesar, small bronze follis
The obverse of a small bronze follis (showing remnants of silvering), 18 mm, struck in Alexandria, Egypt, in the name of Crispus, as Caesar 317- 326 AD, under his father the Roman emperor Constantine I "the Great".
Crispus is wearing a laurel wreath in his hair, and wears a cloak over his cuirass (armor). The legend declares him NOB CAES, for Noble Caesar.
References include RIC vii, 35, which dates this issue to 325- 326 and rates this coin's availability as "R1", rare, but the least rare of the rare.