The coins with Constantine's likeness would have been ... "The fact that they were found outside the Roman Empire on the territory of modern Ukraine makes them an invaluable source of our past." ...

The pendant represents a time when a divided Roman Empire was actively crumbling ... a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century A.D. It was discovered in ...

Constantine's death would drive a crack through the Roman Empire, splitting it into West and East. Over the next several hundred years, parts of it would even fall to foreign invaders.

The Tragedy of Empire From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy, a volume in the Belknap series “History of the Ancient World”, is a very valuable overview and analysis of the knotty question ...