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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7654760, member: 120820&quot;]The REQVIES OPTIMORVM MERITORVM type was struck as a fraction (half-nummus) from Trier, Arles, Rome, Aquileia, Siscia and Thessalonica.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316001[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Rome also issued the type as a nummus with (oddly - larger coin, shorter legend) the legend REQVIES OPTIMOR MERIT (RIC 104-106).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316003[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>At the same time, Rome also issued MEMORIAE AETERNAE fractions for the same line-up of Divus Constantius, Maximianius and Claudius II, but with reverses of a lion (with or without Hercules club) or eagle.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316004[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The most interesting of all of these is an unlisted type MEMORIAE REST (restituted memory), for Claudius II, issued from Trier, which I believe is only known from a single specimen in Berlin. Trier is where a Panegyric was delivered c.310 AD first introducing Claudius II as a (fictitious) ancestor of Constantine.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1316005[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>These types are all an appeal to legitimacy via imperial descent, which had been an especially sensitive issue in 310 AD when Constantine had just forced his father-in-law, and auctor imperii, Maximianus to suicide.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maxentius had earlier done the same thing, being on much shakier ground than Constantine (who had at least been begrudgingly accepted by Galerius), and issued types honoring his father (who had tried to usurp him), father-in law Galerius (who had lead an army against him), and even his brother-in-law&#039;s father, Constantius I, who at least was in good standing. The appeal to imperial ties was too strong a claim to ignore, however the deceased may have regarded you ![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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