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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3989170, member: 44316&quot;]I just searched vcoins on</p><p>&quot;Constantius 306&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; [to remove Constantius II coins; 306 is his death date, &quot;Constantius 293&quot; got fewer hits]</p><p>and then</p><p>&quot;Constantius 305&quot;</p><p>and got 145 hits including</p><p>mostly Genius types with some others not one of the four gods under discussion, and</p><p>2 Hercules</p><p>1 VIRTVS&nbsp;&nbsp; (Virtus is not far from Mars)</p><p>2 FIDES MILITVM with Fides</p><p>2 ants with ORIENS AVG and Sol</p><p>0 with Sol</p><p><br /></p><p>Then I tried</p><p>&quot;Galerius&quot;</p><p>and got 404 hits (not all actually Galerius)</p><p>again mostly Genius types</p><p>15 VIRTVS folles, 2 VIRTVS ants</p><p>&nbsp;&nbsp; (&quot;Galerius Mars&quot; finds 12 of these VIRTVS EXERCITI folles, all as Augustus, and one ant. )</p><p>1 FIDES MILITVM</p><p>1 ORIENS AVG ant with Sol</p><p>&quot;Galerius sol&quot; finds one base-silver argenteus identified as Galerius, but it is really a Maximinus II; I sent the dealer a note to that effect.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is not much emphasis on Mars and very little on Sol. Galerius has a number of VIRTVS coins, but they are a later type and Constantius might have shared that type had he lived that long. If Galerius had wanted to emphasize Mars, he could have had coins saying &quot;MARTI...&quot; but he didn&#039;t.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any impression of Galerius and Constantius favoring a particular deity the way that Diocletian and Maximian favored Jupiter and Hercules.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think those deities may have assigned to them by Diocletian and Maximian, but not adopted with any passion. Certainly, the coins do not show they cared at all about Mars or Sol.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to post a Sol or Mars piece of one or the other of Galerius or Constantius, but my pretty serious collection of AE does not have any. Here is VIRTVS on a coin of Galerius:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1050335[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Galerius as Augustus</p><p>26-25 mm. 6.93 grams.</p><p>VIRTVTI EXERCITVS</p><p>RIC Cyzicus 47.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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