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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 2718128, member: 44316&quot;]I just completed a new educational web page on coins of Maxentius that use the words</p><p><i>Adfini</i>, <i>Cognat</i>, <i>Patri</i>, and <i>Socero</i>.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/adfini/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/adfini/" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/adfini/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The word &quot;Patri&quot; is not so unusual, but the other three words are very rare on Roman coins. Here is one of the coins:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]615089[/ATTACH] </p><p>Divus Maximianus, d. 310. Struck by Maxentius, c. 310.</p><p>23 mm.</p><p>IMP MAXENTIVS DIVO MAXIMIANO <b>PATRI </b>(3:30-5:00)</p><p>PATRI = father</p><p>Maximianus was the father of Maxentius. He had been Augustus for twenty years when forced into retirement upon Diocletian&#039;s retirement in 305. After a short retirement and two aborted comebacks, he was forced to commit suicide by Constantine in 310. </p><p><br /></p><p>Maxentius had obvious reason to claim his relationship to his father who had been Augustus for over twenty years.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin, mint of Ostia, MOSTT, <i>RIC</i> Ostia 26[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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