Helena, Siscia mint, officina 3, 326-327 AD.,
Æ Follis (18-19 mm / 2,65 g),
Obv.: FL HELENA - AVGVSTA , bust of Helena right wearing ornamental mantle and necklace, hair on the neck tied up in a jeweled diadem.
Rev.: SECVRI TAS - REI PVBLICE / • Γ SIS • , Securitas, draped and veiled standing facing, head turned l., holding drapery with her l. hand, laurel-branch in her lowered r. hand.
RIC VII, 450, 204 .
Helena, mother of Constantine I, had died in 328 or 329 AD. Her reappearance on the coinage with reverse Public Peace in 337-340 should be connected to the succession of her three grandchildren Constantine II, Constantius II, and Constans in 337, after the assassination of Dalmatius, Hannibalianus, and other descendants of Constantine I's stepmother Theodora who were regarded as their potential rivals.
See J. P. C. Kent, RIC VIII, pp. 7 and 33.
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