Currency/Exchange; Coin; Nummus
MOL.2018.75.255
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Copper alloy nummus of Helena
Obverse: Helena
Reverse: SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE; Securitas standing left, lowering branch with right hand, raising hem of robe with left hand; PTR
Roman Imperial Coinage, Volume VII, number 458
Minted in Trier
Helena was the wife of Constantius and mother of Constantine the Great. She allegedly travelled to Jerusalem where she discovered the True Cross.