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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 8066946, member: 120820&quot;]Magnentius evidentially took pains to portray himself differently from the the diadem wearing Constantinian clan, preferring to project a more traditional image as no-nonsense general vs eastern lord.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=87200]@ancient coin hunter[/USER] FELICITAS REIPVBLICAE from Trier, above, shows this - gone are the Constantinian diadem and DN (&quot;our lord&quot; ) name prefix, replaced with the traditional IM(PERATOR) CAE(SAR) instead.</p><p><br /></p><p>This change in image seems to have happened immediately at Trier, even on his initial FEL TEMP galley type, but at Lyons we initially see him with diadem + DN, as on this early Fel Temp type (RIC 108). He even looks like Constans or Constantius here - maybe one of the first coins to be issued since Lyons was close to Autun where he had usurped.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1398594[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>While he immediately dropped the diadem + DN at Trier, the initial FEL TEMP busts there seem a bit transitional, before going full hedgehog-head on the following FELICITAS REIPVBLICAE type.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1398595[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1398596[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Later Magnentius appears to have reconsidered, and reverted to use the DN legend, while continuing to reject the diadem.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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