Constantine I. AE18 follis, Constantinople. AD 307-337. 

CONSTANTI-NVS MAX AVG, laureate head right.
SPES PVBLIC across fields, labarum, with three dots on 
the drapery, chi-rho above, spearing serpent. 

Officina letter A in left field.
Mintmark CONS.

RIC VII 19. 

This reverse type was spread through the empire as an excuse 
of Constantine's unwarranted murder of Licinius and his 
little son, whose reign Constantine wished to represent as "tyranny". In fact the megalomaniac Constantine simply 
wanted the whole empire for himself instead of sharing it with Licinius.

With permission of Nomos AG auction 19, Lot 358, Nov. 2019.