Roman AE Of Licinius 1st (AD 308-324) Jovi Conservatori NGC

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Licinius was a partner and rival to Constantine the Great, serving as the Eastern Emperor of Rome. His marriage to Constantine’s half-sister Constantia forestalled civil war. The wedding provided the backdrop for one of Constantine’s greatest accomplishments, the Edict of Milan, which legalized Christianity in the Empire. The honeymoon did not last. In time, Licinius, too, was executed on the orders of his brother-in-law—hung to death after his defeat at the Battle of Chrysopolis.

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Valerius Licinianus Licinius (Greek: Λικίνιος; c. 265 – 325) was Roman emperor from 308 to 324. For most of his reign, he was the colleague and rival of Constantine I, with whom he co-authored the Edict of Milan that granted official toleration to Christians in the Roman Empire. He was finally defeated at the Battle of Chrysopolis (AD 324), and was later executed on the orders of Constantine I.

Born to a Dacian^[3]^[4] peasant family in Moesia Superior, Licinius accompanied his close childhood friend and future emperor Galerius, on the Persian expedition in 298.^[3] He was trusted enough by Galerius that in 307 he was sent as an envoy to Italy, to attempt to reach some sort of agreement with the usurper Maxentius.^[3] When Galerius went to deal with Maxentius personally after the death of Severus II, he left the eastern provinces in Licinius' care.^[5]