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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Victor_Clark, post: 2769627, member: 10613&quot;]Neither Martinian nor Licinius would have struck coins for Constantine during this period because of the circumstances surrounding the elevation of Martininian- namely the second civil war between Constantine and Licinius.</p><p><br /></p><p>How do we know that the GENIO coins were struck by Domitius. Well, of course we are not 100% sure, as a written account of this has not survived, explicitly stating that he struck these coins; but we can look at the coins. Coins in his name, which were surely struck by him, are from the same series. RIC VI says &quot;and the addition of an eagle (symbol of power) combine to suggest strongly that Domitius now gained control of Alexandria, coining in the name of the tetrarchs as well as in his own&quot;&quot; (pg 650) So it does not seem like too big a leap to think he struck these in the names of other rulers, especially as he was trying to gain recognition from who he considered the legitimate rulers</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]638323[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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