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<p>[QUOTE="seth77, post: 4743565, member: 56653"]Vetranio is also represented with a laureate bust:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159335[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>And I think [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] 's Iovian is the ASIRM unrecorded officina of Sirmium 120, with laurel and rosette-diademed bust right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1159343[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If laurel remained an attribute of the Caesares of the 330s and Constantine's heirs up to around 340 and we accept this as true, then Vetranio used it especially to appeal to Constantius II. But by the time of Iovian, the House of Valentinian or the Eastern mints under the House of Theodosius, probably a more ornate head-gear was just that: a more ornate head-gear.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="seth77, post: 4743565, member: 56653"]Vetranio is also represented with a laureate bust: [ATTACH=full]1159335[/ATTACH] And I think [USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] 's Iovian is the ASIRM unrecorded officina of Sirmium 120, with laurel and rosette-diademed bust right: [ATTACH=full]1159343[/ATTACH] If laurel remained an attribute of the Caesares of the 330s and Constantine's heirs up to around 340 and we accept this as true, then Vetranio used it especially to appeal to Constantius II. But by the time of Iovian, the House of Valentinian or the Eastern mints under the House of Theodosius, probably a more ornate head-gear was just that: a more ornate head-gear.[/QUOTE]
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