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323 AD Roman Imperial Crispus, as Caesar, AE Follis; Trier MintApprox. Ch VG. Coins bearing the image/name of Crispus are generally rare as he was not to become Augustus (emperor). This coin was minted for a single year at Trier (now Trier, Germany) Rare - short mintage; Crispus, AE3, Trier. 323 AD. RIC VII 401. 2.77 g, 19mm Flavius Julius Crispus, eldest son of Constantine the Great. Constantine named Crispus co-caesar with his cousin Licinus II. Obv: IVL CRIS-PVS NOB C, helmeted, cuirassed bust right Rev: BEATA TRAN-QVILLITAS, large globe on an altar inscribed VO / TIS / XX in three lines, three stars above mintmark: dot STR crescent. Trier formerly and traditionally known in English as Trèves and Triers is a city on the banks of the Moselle in Germany. Flavius Julius Crispus was the eldest son of the Roman emperor Constantine I, as well as his junior colleague (caesar) from March 317 until his execution by his father in 326. The grandson of the augustus Constantius I, Crispus was the elder half-brother of the future augustus Constantine II and became co-caesar with him and with his cousin Licinius II at Serdica, part of the settlement ending the Cibalensean War between Constantine and his father's rival Licinius I. Crispus ruled from Augusta Treverorum (Trier) in Roman Gaul between 318 and 323 and defeated the navy of Licinius I at the Battle of the Hellespont in 324, which with the land Battle of Chrysopolis won by Constantine forced the resignation of Licinius and his son, leaving Constantine the sole augustus and the Constantinian dynasty in control of the entire empire. It is unclear what was legal status of the relationship Crispus's mother Minervina had with Constantine; Crispus may have been an illegitimate son.

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