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<p>[QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7714992, member: 120820"]Well, he may not have liked it, but really had no complaint .. quite yet. At this point Constantine is still calling himself caesar since that is all Galerius had afforded him.</p><p><br /></p><p>Shortly after this, when Maximianus elevated Constantine to augustus, Maxentius duly went along and we then see Constantine as augustus in this same series (RIC 197 vs your 196).</p><p><br /></p><p>However, where Constantine presumably was offended, as intended, was on the following issue RIC 203 (now shorter CONSERV legend, with "H" in left field), where Maxentius "demotes" him back to caesar !!</p><p><br /></p><p>What had happened was that Maximianius has tried to usurp his usurper son in 308, and then fled Rome upon failing. Maxentius was understandably unhappy about this and shortly afterwards stopped coining for both Maximianus and Constantine (perhaps blaming him for it?), but oddly not before this RIC 203 "H" issue including both the demoted Constantine AND his disgraced father (RIC 202b) !</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1323106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Heliodromus, post: 7714992, member: 120820"]Well, he may not have liked it, but really had no complaint .. quite yet. At this point Constantine is still calling himself caesar since that is all Galerius had afforded him. Shortly after this, when Maximianus elevated Constantine to augustus, Maxentius duly went along and we then see Constantine as augustus in this same series (RIC 197 vs your 196). However, where Constantine presumably was offended, as intended, was on the following issue RIC 203 (now shorter CONSERV legend, with "H" in left field), where Maxentius "demotes" him back to caesar !! What had happened was that Maximianius has tried to usurp his usurper son in 308, and then fled Rome upon failing. Maxentius was understandably unhappy about this and shortly afterwards stopped coining for both Maximianus and Constantine (perhaps blaming him for it?), but oddly not before this RIC 203 "H" issue including both the demoted Constantine AND his disgraced father (RIC 202b) ! [ATTACH=full]1323106[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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