A solidus, or bezant, was a gold coin issued in the Late Roman Empire. It featured the portrait of Emperor Constantine. He introduced it on a wide scale and it weighed 4.5 grams. It was ...

“a pure gold coin introduced by Emperor Constantine during the late Roman Empire that weighed about 0.15 ounces,” writes Live Science’s Laura Geggel. The coins were all minted during the ...

May 21 is a festive day as the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates Saint Constantine, the founder of Constantinople, and his ...

An amateur metal detectorist discovered a buried hoard of nearly 1,500 Roman coins near Bucharest, Romania. The coins, which ...

Two metal detectorists stumbled across a cache of coins dating back to Biblical times in a one-of-a-kind discovery, according to European officials. The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands ...

[There is] the story of the coin that's produced for ... by the time of the conversion of Constantine becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. And even then, that's not a simple ...

He was able to stabilize the Roman currency, with coins often depicting ... leader of the entire faith. One of Constantine’s greatest contributions to the empire was the construction of the ...