Portrait Gallery of Roman Emperors

Obverse of London Mint Constantine I Bronze
Reverse of London Mint Constantine I Bronze showing 'Sol Invictus'

Constantine the Great
305-337

The son of Constantius I Chlorus, Constantine was proclaimed emperor at York by his father's troops when the latter died whilst campaigning in Northern Britain in 306 A.D. Constantine struggled to assert his status as an Augustus (senior emperor) in the early years of his reign, and as a consequence, many of his early coins minted in areas under the control of his rival tetrachic colleagues read 'nob caesar' (Noble Caesar) rather than 'pf aug' (Pius Felix Augustus).

Following the death of Galerius in 311, the remaining four emperors split into two factions, consisting of Constantine and Licinious on one side, with Maximian and Maxentius on the other. Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in 312 was ascribed to the favour of the Christian God and the patronage of Constantine and those of his successors would see the Roman Empire turn from one of Christianity's bitterist enemies into its chief proponent, setting the path that would eventually see Christianity supplanting the various pagan religions of Europe as the dominant faith, although Constantine himself did not officially convert to the new religion until shortly before his death in 337.
In 313, Licinious defeated Maximian and Constantine and Licinious ruled the Western and Eastern halves of the Empire respectively. The alliance was an uneasy one however, and in 325 Constantine eventually wrested control of the Eastern half from his erstwhile ally and ruled over the entire Empire for the rest of his reign.
Constantinople (formerly Byzantium, now Istanbul) was founded in 330 as the Eastern capital and named after him, and was eventually to become the epicentre and capital of the Byzantine Empire, which was to survive the collapse of the Western Roman Empire for almost a thousand years.

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