Roman Empire CRISPUS as CAESAR AD 316-326 NUMMUS/ Sun-God Sol NGC Ch AU (022)

Ancient Rome.

Silvered Bronze  NUMMUS (FOLLIS)

CRISPUS – 1ST SON OF CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

AS CAESAR (JUNIOR EMPEROR) - WESTERN ROMAN EMPIRE

GRADED NGC Ch AU

Obv. Laureate bust right

Rev. Sun-God Sol Hold Globe

FLAVIUS JULIUS CRISPUS WAS THE EMPEROR CONSTANTINE’S FIRST BORN SON BY MINERVINA. BY ALL ACCOUNTS, CRISPUS’ PARENTS HAD A VERY LOVING AND PUBLIC RELATIONSHIP, ALTHOUGH IT IS UNKNOWN IF SHE WAS A CONCUBINE, OR IF THEY WERE MARRIED. REGARDLESS, AND PROBABLY FOR POLITICAL ADVANTAGE, CONSTANTINE MARRIED FAUSTA, DAUGHETR OF HIS CO-EMPEROR AND FELLOW TETRARCH, MAXIMIAN, IN 307, AND SET MINERVINA ASIDE. INTERESTINGLY, CONSTATINE’S FATHER HAD SET HIS MOTHER HELENA ASIDE, DIVORCING HER TO ALSO MARRY A DAUGHTER OF MAXIMIAN FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
CRISPUS WAS RAISED AT HIS FATHER’S SIDE IN GAUL. CONSTANTINE WAS APPARENTLY A PROTECTIVE, LOVING AND TRUSTING FATHER. BY 317, ONLY CONSTATNTNE AND HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, LICINIUS, REMAINED AS RULING AUGUSTI IN THE WEST. THEY JOINTLY PROCLAIMED CRISPUS, CRISPUS’ YOUNG HALF-BROTHER CONSTANTIUS, AND LICINIUS’ SON LICINIUS JUNIOR, AS CO-CAESARS. CONSTANTINE MADE CRISPUS COMMANDER IN GAUL. CRISPUS SET UP HIS RESIDENCE IN AUGUSTA TREVERORUM (TRIER), AND WAS A VICTORIUOS LEADER IN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST NEARBY GERMANIC TRIBES. HE WAS ADORED BY THE ROMAN LEGIONS. HE LATER COMMANDED 200 SHIPS FOR HIS FATHER AT THE BATTLE OF THE HELLESPONT, WHICH WAS FOUGHT AGAINST LICINIUS, AND DESTROYED THE ENEMY FLEET WHICH GREATLY OUTNUMBERED HIS OWN. ANOTHER LAND VICTORY WAS HIS AT CHRYSOPOLIS, AS CO-LEADER OF HIS FATHER’S LOYAL LEGIONS AGAINST LICINIUS, AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS HELPED SECURE HIS FATHER’S FINAL TRIUMPH OVER HIS RIVAL.
SINCE HIS HALF-SIBLINGS WERE SO YOUNG, AND HIS POPULARITY, AND THE GRATITUDE OF HIS FATHER WAS SO GREAT, IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE CRISPUS WAS MADE HEIR APPARENT TO HIS FATHER’S THRONE.
UNFORTUNATELY, HIS BRILLIANT CAREER TOOK A VERY SHARP AND BIZARRE TURN, WHEN HIS STEP-MOTHER, THE EMPRESS FAUSTA, WENT TO CONSTANTINE AND ACCUSED CRISPUS OF TRYING TO RAPE HER. FAUSTA'S MOTIVE SEEMS CLEAR, THAT HER SONS WERE IN DANGER OF BEING PASSED OVER IN FAVOR OF CRISPUS, OF WHOM SHE WAS EXTREMELY JEALOUS. SURPRISINGLY, FAUSTA CONVINCED CONSTANTINE OF HIS BELOVED ELDEST SON’S GUILT, AND CRISPUS WAS ARRESTED, CONVICTED, AND EXECUTED.
A FEW MONTHS LATER, THE TRUTH SURFACED THAT FAUSTA HAD LIED TO DESTROY CRISPUS, AND CONSTANTINE HAD HER BOILED ALIVE.

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