Constantine: Britain’s Roman Emperor

Christopher Kelly introduces the Emperor Constantine.

A gold multiple of "Unconquered Constantine" with Sol Invictus, struck in 313At noon on October 28th, AD 312, God dramatically intervened in the course of human history. At least according to Eusebius (bishop of Caesarea on the coast of Palestine) the self-appointed biographer of the newly Christian Roman emperor, Constantine. In late October 312 Constantine advanced on Rome, the culmination of a swift and bloody civil war against Maxentius, a rival claimant to the imperial throne.

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