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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7877183, member: 120820&quot;]Waiting to see where the winds were blowing is probably about right.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of Maxentius&#039; earliest coinage from both Carthage and Rome had tetrarchic &quot;AVGG ET CAESS&quot; themes, and he rapidly cycled through presenting himself as caesar, then princ. invict., before giving up and just going with augustus. He seems to have been initially hoping (expecting, even?) to fit into the fractured tetrarchy, before Galerius made it clear he was not having it. The situation was obviously rapidly developing and fluid!</p><p><br /></p><p>It seems Maxentius was asking too much if he expected Maximinus to support him, at the cost of angering Galerius, although I suppose he can&#039;t be blamed for trying. In any event his coinage recognizing Maximinus was very brief - he was included in the initial gold issues from both Carthage and Rome, as well as on this Carthage Salvis type, and that&#039;s it. Presumably he made some sort of contact with Maximinus, and sent his peace offering of aureii, but was rebuffed.</p><p><br /></p><p>As I recall there are some sources that had Maximinus in later secret alliance with&nbsp; Maxentius against Constantine, although if true nothing apparently came of it. We don&#039;t know how relations were between Maxentius and Maximinus, but certainly expecting any kind of overt support from Maximinus wasn&#039;t going to happen. Perhaps he told Maxentius as much, but at least agreed not to interfere ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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