Constantine Caesar, 317-337.

Silver Medallion of 4 Siliquae June – September 337, Thessalonica. AVGVSTVS Diademed head right / CAESAR in a laurel wreath. TSE in exergue. 12,87g. Ramskold p. 412, n°33 (this specimen cited); RIC 221.

An impressive and superb coin.

Provenance:
Gemini Auction III (9 January 2007), 460.
MDC Auction 6 (29 October 2020), 150.

During a long time, this exceptional issue was thought to date back to the end of Constantine I's reign and to commemorate the Vicennalia (twentieth anniversary of the reign) of his son Constantine Caesar (future Emperor Constantine II). Recently Dr Lars Ramskold attributed this issue to the interregnum between the murder of Dalmatius and the proclamation of the three Augusti (Constantine II, Constans and Constantius II). (For more details, see Ramskold Lars, “The AVGVSTVS / CAESAR and CAESAR / XX silver Multiples and the Interregnum 337 CE”, in Niš and Byzantium – Nineteen International Symposium, Niš 3-5 June 2020, Niš 2021).