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<p>[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3999374, member: 83956"]What a score! Further evidence that the Tetrarchs would use whatever deity happened to suit their needs at a given time; there was no strict tutelary affiliation beyond the Herculian and Jovian houses of West and East. M.D. Smith summarizes: "What we can be certain of, at least as far as the numismatic evidence can take us, is that there was no consistent pattern in the religious coinage advertising a divine Tetrarchy paralleling and supporting its earthly counterpart. Rather, the Tetrarchy was vested with divine legitimacy by Jove and his divine/imperial partner, Hercules. Mars, of course, was useful, especially in time of war or when an Emperor wanted to bolster the morale of the legions; Sol, although appropriately honored, played at most a minor and insignificant role. When Diocletian and Maximian retired, Galerius and Constantius, now freed to pursue their own policies governing the minting of coinage, chose to follow in the footsteps of their mentors, emphasizing Jove and Hercules…" “The Religious Coinage of Constantius I,” <i>Byzantion</i> Vol. 70, No. 2 (2000), 474-490, at 489.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Gavin Richardson, post: 3999374, member: 83956"]What a score! Further evidence that the Tetrarchs would use whatever deity happened to suit their needs at a given time; there was no strict tutelary affiliation beyond the Herculian and Jovian houses of West and East. M.D. Smith summarizes: "What we can be certain of, at least as far as the numismatic evidence can take us, is that there was no consistent pattern in the religious coinage advertising a divine Tetrarchy paralleling and supporting its earthly counterpart. Rather, the Tetrarchy was vested with divine legitimacy by Jove and his divine/imperial partner, Hercules. Mars, of course, was useful, especially in time of war or when an Emperor wanted to bolster the morale of the legions; Sol, although appropriately honored, played at most a minor and insignificant role. When Diocletian and Maximian retired, Galerius and Constantius, now freed to pursue their own policies governing the minting of coinage, chose to follow in the footsteps of their mentors, emphasizing Jove and Hercules…" “The Religious Coinage of Constantius I,” [I]Byzantion[/I] Vol. 70, No. 2 (2000), 474-490, at 489.[/QUOTE]
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