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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7913611, member: 120820&quot;]I&#039;m not aware of any good resources for the eastern coinage. If we&#039;re just talking about Maximinus II&#039;s coinage (vs the western SOLI INVICTO COMITI type(s) issued by Constantine), then briefly (or as brief as I can make it!) :</p><p><br /></p><p>Maximinus as caesar was junior in the east to Galerius augustus, and up until 309-310 followed Galerius&#039; lead and issued the same coin types as him from the mints he (Maximinus) controlled: Antioch and Alexandria. The coin types for the emperors are basically GENIO and VIRTVS.</p><p><br /></p><p>Somewhere around 309-310 AD, Maximinus, still caesar and fed up with it (due to Constantine, Maxentius and Licinius having leapfrogged him in seniority), started asserting himself on his Antioch coinage and issued a bunch of exceptional new types, including his first Sol type with a facing quadriga reverse and legend of SOLI INVICTAE or SOLI INVICTO. Other reverse types include MAXIMINVS NOBILISSIMVS CAESAR(!), and IOVIO PROPAGAT ORBIS TERRARVM.</p><p><br /></p><p>Around 310AD, Galerius seems to have succumbed to pressure and elevated Maximinus to augustus, who now reformed his coinage at Antioch (mintmark ANT with crescent in field). In addition to other new types (IOVI, HERCVLI, GENIO AVGVSTI), he continues the Sol quadriga type but now with the quadriga travelling left vs facing and a legend of SOLI INVICTO, and also introduces this &quot;standing Sol holding head of Serapis&quot; type with legend SOLE INVICTO, or rarely SOLI INVICTO.</p><p><br /></p><p>After the death of Galerius in 311AD, Maximinus now gets control of the territory/mints of Nicomedia and Cyzicus, and these now issue the same types as Antioch (but omitting the Antioch-only quadriga one). Cyzicus goes with the SOLE spelling, but Nicomedia goes with SOLI.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 311-312 AD Maximinus has a coordinated 2nd issue at these oriental mints with a star in field as part of the mintmark, and all mints now in sync and using the SOLI legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>In 313AD, with Licinius away in Milan, Maximinus invades Licinius&#039; territory and briefly takes control of the Heraclea mint, and issues all his coin types, including SOLI INVICTO from there.</p><p><br /></p><p>So, to summarize, at Antioch we have:</p><p><br /></p><p>SOLI INVICTAE/INVICTO facing quadriga (ANT)</p><p>SOLI INVICTO quadriga travelling left (ANT)</p><p>SOLE/SOLI INVICTO Sol with head of Serapis (ANT u)</p><p>SOLI INVICTO Sol with head of Serapis (ANT *)</p><p><br /></p><p>The quadriga types are fairly rare (and anyways expensive), the &quot;ANT u&quot; issue scarce, and the last one most common.</p><p><br /></p><p>At Nicomedia, Cyzicus and (briefly!) Heraclea we have the Sol with head of Serapis type, and at Alexandria nothing since (perhaps in deference to local religion) it didn&#039;t issue Maximinus&#039; new IOVI/HERCVLI/SOLI types.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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