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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7652090, member: 89514&quot;]For my discovery that Macrinus&#039; coins dated TR P II COS followed rather than preceded those dated TR P II COS II, see my article on the Roman coinage of Macrinus and Diadumenian in Num. Zeitschrift 93, 1979. </p><p><br /></p><p>The explanation is that Macrinus had been awarded consular ornaments while serving as Caracalla&#039;s praetorian prefect, but when he later assumed the actual consulship as emperor, he did not consider himself to be consul for the second time, equating the consular ornaments with a theoretical first consulship, but was satisfied with the rank of consul for the first time. Dio Cassius praises Macrinus for this demonstration of modesty, recording that Plautianus under Septimius Severus had been the first praetorian prefect who was awarded consular ornaments, and then ranked himself as consul for the second time when he later served as actual consul.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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