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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: CRISPUS, Caesar AD 317-326. AE3.
Obverse: CRISPVS NOB CAES, his laureated, draped, and cuirassed bust facing right.
Reverse: PRINCIPIA IVVENTVTIS, Mars standing left, holding scepter and leaning on shield; P in right field; in exergue Q, star in crescent upward, and A.
Reference: RIC VII 172 Arles; Sear 3921. Grade: About Uncirculated.
Comments: For more information, read the "Crispus" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Crispus see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.