God’s emperor.
For those who might be interested, bronze coins of Constantine the Great are easily available for only a few dollars. You can get a nice one with easily readable legends for less than $10. Only trick is to get the real, original Constantine II, instead of his kids—Constantine JR, Constans, Constantius II. But any of them are over 1600 years old and with some of his kids, you might see signs of Christianity on the coins—the Chi Rho.
“In Hoc Signo Vinces”
“Under This Sign(cross) You Will Conquer”.
The voice of Constantines beatific vision just before the battle of the Milvian Bridge.
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He was the first emperor to govern from his new capital in the east called Constantinople.
It was the heart of a Christian empire that would endure for the next millennium.
That was Constantine’s lasting legacy.
Constantine may be called Great but he became emperor by massacring one Roman army after another. He then destroyed the Tetrarchy system which Diocletian put in place to address the empire’s lethal weakness, the imperial succession. His reign set in motion the events that led to the collapse of the empire in the west, or at the very least undid the hard work of his predecessors in stabilizing the situation.