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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2846079, member: 88829&quot;]I think we agree on the motivation of Magnentius.&nbsp; However, I also think the mint officials at Trier were more radically Catholic than you are allowing.&nbsp; They had no intention of compromising two centuries of theological development for the sake of an Arian interloper.&nbsp; The locals knew how to contend against paganism in official circles, but Arianism was a new threat (i.e. 320 AD) coming out of the east, a distinct partition of the Empire.&nbsp; It would seem from their choice of iconography that they dug in.&nbsp; Any attempt to reunify the empire was going to meet resistance at that level, and the subsequent east-west division under the Valentinians, I think, justifies that perception.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t compromise; and the division never really got resolved.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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