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<p>[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 3661587, member: 10613"]The Maximinus II coin seems unofficial...cgb even called it "aberrant"-- Cette monnaie semble aberrante</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the later VLPP were issued for all the rulers, I believe the reverse was still referencing Constantine. In A.D. 306, Constantine was awarded the title "prince of youth" (as many other rulers also, but not Licinius) by the senate and he issued many PRINCIPI types. Constantine seemed to enjoy the title so much that he called himself the "eternal prince" despite, or perhaps because of, being about 45 years old when the last round of VLPP's were issued.</p><p><br /></p><p>The circumstance of the last issue of VLPP's is important. The first civil war with Licinius had just ended and once again, Constantine was victorious. The Siscia mint is the best mint to look at, since Constantine had just won the territory from Licinius after the war and Siscia was also the farthest east of the mints that issued the VLPP's and also closest to the remaining territory of Licinius. An important aspect of this issue is the bust types. The military bust with spear and shield (the H12 bust and also the H11 with just spear) was only issued for Constantine and was never issued for Licinius -- he is always depicted as just laureate. In fact, Constantine is always helmeted on all issues from every mint, except for a rare early issue from Arles; which must have been an error and was quickly changed. Siscia even had a short run of the first use in the East of the title MAX for Constantine (IMP CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG Siscia 52), which may have been deemed a bit inflammatory as it was not used for rest of the series.</p><p><br /></p><p>So the last issue of the VLPP coinage is a summation of Constantine's continuing victories. So not just a singular victory, but all the victories; which, was quite a few by this point...with no losses.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Victor_Clark, post: 3661587, member: 10613"]The Maximinus II coin seems unofficial...cgb even called it "aberrant"-- Cette monnaie semble aberrante Even though the later VLPP were issued for all the rulers, I believe the reverse was still referencing Constantine. In A.D. 306, Constantine was awarded the title "prince of youth" (as many other rulers also, but not Licinius) by the senate and he issued many PRINCIPI types. Constantine seemed to enjoy the title so much that he called himself the "eternal prince" despite, or perhaps because of, being about 45 years old when the last round of VLPP's were issued. The circumstance of the last issue of VLPP's is important. The first civil war with Licinius had just ended and once again, Constantine was victorious. The Siscia mint is the best mint to look at, since Constantine had just won the territory from Licinius after the war and Siscia was also the farthest east of the mints that issued the VLPP's and also closest to the remaining territory of Licinius. An important aspect of this issue is the bust types. The military bust with spear and shield (the H12 bust and also the H11 with just spear) was only issued for Constantine and was never issued for Licinius -- he is always depicted as just laureate. In fact, Constantine is always helmeted on all issues from every mint, except for a rare early issue from Arles; which must have been an error and was quickly changed. Siscia even had a short run of the first use in the East of the title MAX for Constantine (IMP CONSTANTINVS MAX AVG Siscia 52), which may have been deemed a bit inflammatory as it was not used for rest of the series. So the last issue of the VLPP coinage is a summation of Constantine's continuing victories. So not just a singular victory, but all the victories; which, was quite a few by this point...with no losses.[/QUOTE]
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