FL HELENA AVGVSTA
Diademed, draped bust right
SECVRITAS REIPVBLICE
Securitas standing left, holding branch.
Weight: 2.69 gr
Diameter: 18.4 mm
Helena, later known as Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, mother of Constantine the Great, was credited after her death with having discovered the fragments of the Cross and the tomb in which Jesus was buried at Golgotha. Helena was born at Drepanum in Bithynia, later renamed after her Helenpolis, about the year 250.