"Constantinos"

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Under the official name Constantinato, or commonly Costantinato, it is carried gold coin Byzantine, Venetian and Cypriot, according to F. Hasluk, whose type resembles a hagiography of the Emperors St. Constantine and St. Helena, which among them is the Christian cross.

Folklore
There are many popular traditions that developed mainly during the Byzantine period. According to them, pregnant women brought kostantinata for both the protection of embryos and the ease of childbirth. They also brought children as amulets against vacania. They still believed that the kostantines accelerated the fermentation of the flour and yoghurt.

In general, the doctrines about the cosmos refer mainly to the saints depicted in combination with the discovery of the Holy Cross by St Helena. As a result, it was to be considered as a Costantinate in some cases even of equal value to honest wood.
In particular there was tradition that St. Helen when she found the Cross cut him in half and one part left him in Jerusalem, and the other carried him to Constantinople. And the sawdust from this cutting was placed in a crucible with other precious metals than the alloy of which the costadinatas were cut.
A similar tradition is found between the Greek Vlachs in Macedonia as well as Bulgaria and Russia, which may have come from a Byzantine synaxari.

Among other traditions developed in the Aegean islands and in the Peloponnese in the kostantinata, hemostatic properties were attributed during birth, considering that their possession heals the "filming (solving) of the foam". In the Greek Revolution of 1821, the possession of a Costantinate by the Greek revolutionaries was considered an amulet for the "bad vole". It also cured fever, epilepsy, and jaundice. In Mani to this day the kostantinatas are considered precious family heirlooms and even when they are thought to be and miraculously they place them in the icons, while in many places their owners each Great Thursday they present them to the churches and operate them.

The continuation of these traditions is to be offered even today to infant gold coins, (in births and baptisms) or more commonly the gold cross that was later established replacing the kostantine.

Monetary history of Greece
Historical coins
Folklore