Die Taten der Kaiser Constans und Constantius II

Abstract

At Pentecost 337 Constantine died; after his nephews Delmatius and Hannibalianus and their claims had been removed, his sons Constantine II, Constantius II and Constans divided the empire between them. Barely three years later Constantine II fell in a quarrel with Constans, who took the west for himself without having to offer any compensation to Constantius II, then hard pressed by the Sasanians; so from 340 the brothers ruled amid shifting tensions until Constans was removed in 350 by the usurpation of Magnentius. Under their joint reign a coinage reform was carried through across the whole empire, marked by the pecunia maiorina, a copper denomination of about twenty to twenty-four millimetres with a thin silver wash. Its date falls after 340 and before a law of February 349.

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Suggested citation

Kraft, Konrad: Die Taten der Kaiser Constans und Constantius II. In: Jahrbuch für Numismatik und Geldgeschichte 9 (1958), pp. 141–186, Tf.12-13.

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