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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8227225, member: 120820&quot;]Here&#039;s two bust variants of Maximinus Daia&#039;s PROV. DEOR. abdication type for Diocletian, with heads of Sol and Jupiter on his mantle.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC VI Alexandria 128 (head of Sol on mantle)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445844[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC VI Alexandria 146 (head of Jupiter on mantle)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1445845[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>In addition to the busts, what&#039;s also interesting is that Daia was issuing abdication types at all this late (c.310-311 AD) ! The initial PROV. DEOR. QVIES AVGG type had been issued immediately by members of the 2nd tetrarchy in 305-306, then Constantine had issued his own QVIES AVGG for Diocletian in 307 AD (oddly plural AVGG despite not including Maximianus who was already back out of retirement), but Daia continued with these at Antioch and Alexandria all the way to his coinage reform of 310-311 AD... perhaps trying to curry favor with Diocletian due to his unhappiness with Galerius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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