the coins amounted to as much as a single gold solidus, “a pure gold coin introduced by Emperor Constantine during the late Roman Empire that weighed about 0.15 ounces,” writes Live Science ...

The pagan Anglo-Saxons copied a gold Roman coin with Christian ... pendant imitates a Roman coin called a solidus, a type of gold coin introduced by the emperor Constantine in the fourth century ...

a pure-gold coin introduced by Emperor Constantine during the late Roman Empire that weighed about 0.15 ounces (4.5 grams). A solidus was worth about two months' salary for a soldier at the time.

this coin was minted in Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon) in AD 330, nearly 1700 years ago during the reign of Constantine the Great - one of the most important emperors in Roman history." Constantine ...