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Life of Constantine

Eusebius of Caesarea, NPNF II.1

Book 4, How Constantine is Represented on Coins in the Act of Ascending to Heaven

A Coinage was also struck which bore the following device. On one side appeared the figure of our blessed prince, with the head closely veiled: the reverse exhibited him sitting as a charioteer, drawn by four horses, with a hand stretched downward from above to receive him up to heaven.