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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 4641950, member: 83956&quot;]My understanding is that Galerius did indeed intend to honor the tetrarchic scheme, just not with Constantine as Augustus. Hence Severus II&#039;s status as Augustus in the West in the Third Tetrarchy. I defer to Timothy Barnes on nearly all things from this period:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;The new ruler of Britain, Gaul and Spain immediately sent the customary laureled letter to Galerius in which he both announced his appointment by his father and his salutation as Augustus by his father’s army and requested recognition from the new senior Augustus as his father’s successor. Galerius, who was perhaps on campaign on the Danube, as he so often was in the first decade of the fourth century, was implacably opposed to recognizing as his equal in rank one whom he had excluded from the imperial college fifteen months earlier. But what could he do? He was in no position to dispute Constantine’s claim that his father had appointed him to the imperial college. Constantine was in undisputed command of his father’s army.…Whatever his hesitations, he had no choice but to accept the new military and political reality established on 25 July 306 in distant York.” [Barnes, <i>Constantine: Dynasty, Religion and Power in the Later Roman Empire</i>, pp. 63-64. (2014).]</p><p><br /></p><p>Galerius made his peace with this “new reality” by naming Constantine the Western Caesar, which Constantine strategically accepted in September of 306.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, I don&#039;t want to be too deferential to the scholarly tradition. I do find the timing of this coin of Galerius to be enigmatic if it was struck only for him in 306.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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