Ancient Roman Bronze Coin of Empress Fausta (Imperial Wife in the Age of Constantine), NGC Certified

Own a Bronze Coin from the Empress Executed by Her Own Husband — and Erased From History

A real AE3 bronze of Fausta — wife of Constantine the Great, daughter of Maximian, mother of three future emperors, and the woman who was suffocated in an overheated bath in AD 326, her memory condemned and her name struck from the official record in one of the most haunting mysteries of the Constantinian dynasty. NGC certified.

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👑 Wife of Constantine I, mother of Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans — the three sons who would divide and rule the Roman world after their father's death
🏛 Reverse depicts Victory, Salus, or Pietas — legitimacy, stability, and divine favor projected for an empress whose memory was officially condemned the same year her stepson Crispus was also executed
🤲 Struck AD 307–326 — subjected to damnatio memoriae after her death, making these coins among the few surviving official images of a woman Rome tried to erase. NGC certified.

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Why This Coin Matters

Fausta was the daughter of Maximian — the western Augustus who had been one of Diocletian's Tetrarchic partners — and her marriage to Constantine in AD 307 was a calculated political alliance that gave Constantine legitimacy within the Tetrarchic framework even as he was beginning to undermine it. She bore him five children, including the three sons who would eventually claim the empire: Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans. As Augusta she appeared on imperial coinage distributed across the empire, her diademed portrait projecting the stability of the Constantinian dynasty.

In AD 326, something went catastrophically wrong. Constantine's eldest son Crispus — a popular and militarily capable Caesar born of an earlier relationship — was suddenly executed. Shortly afterward, Fausta herself was killed — ancient sources describe suffocation in an overheated bath, a method that could be made to look accidental or could be a deliberate execution. The sources that survive offer conflicting accounts: some suggest Fausta had accused Crispus of improper advances and was later found to have lied; others imply a political conspiracy; others connect the deaths to the influence of Helena, Constantine's mother.

What is documented is the aftermath. Fausta's memory was subjected to damnatio memoriae — her name removed from inscriptions, her official honors stripped, her public existence condemned. The coins struck in her name before AD 326 became, paradoxically, among the only surviving official images of an empress Rome had officially erased. This AE3, struck during the years of her imperial prominence, is one of those survivors — a coin that outlasted the condemnation that was supposed to eliminate her from history. Certified by NGC.

Perfect for:

• Collectors of Constantinian dynasty, imperial women, and Roman AE3 bronze coinage
• History lovers drawn to Fausta, the mystery of AD 326, and Constantine's most haunting dynastic tragedy
• Damnatio memoriae survivors, Victory and Salus reverse types, and NGC certified Constantinian bronze enthusiasts
• Anyone seeking a coin from an empress whose execution and erasure remains one of late antiquity's most debated mysteries

What You'll Receive

• One authentic AE3 bronze of Fausta
• Denomination: AE3 (late Roman bronze)
• NGC certified for authenticity and preservation
• Struck AD 307–326 — similar to examples shown (each coin is unique)

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