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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;seth77, post: 4852256, member: 56653&quot;]The difficulty here is discerning soluta from suscepta. For instance the ROMAE AETERNAE type of 320 marks Constantine&#039;s quindecennalia so a vota soluta of 15years, while the BEATA TRANQVILLITAS, issued at about the same time vows for 20 years, so a vota suscepta for the next ca. 5 years up until his vicennalia in 325-6. After which the VOT XXX type of [USER=86398]@gogili1977[/USER] starts, anticipating (vota suscepta) Constantine&#039;s tricennalia.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the coinage of his sons there are two different situations:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. as in [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] &#039;s ROMAE AETERNAE XV (and in the case of the BEATA types XX) the marking of the vows by Constantine is used also on coinage minted in the names of his sons and in the names of the Licinii</p><p>2. after 320, the sons get their own vota suscepta of V and X as they have a more prominent public role in Constantine&#039;s dynastic propaganda.</p><p><br /></p><p>Later on during the second half of the 4th century the vota recepta and suscepta of the senior emperors were inscribed on the coinage for the junior emperor(s) until they either became seniors and/or approached their own quinquennalia -- Gratian&#039;s silique in 367 mark the recepta of 5 years and suscepta of 10 by Valentinian and Valens. There were also occasions when emperors were so ahead of themselves that they minted coinage that implied an already accomplished quinquennalia and vows for the decennalia while still in their first year of rule, like the second coinage of Jovian (VOT V MVLT X) continued at Sirmium after his death briefly by his successor Valentinian I in the first part of 364.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171763[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1171764[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>In January-February 364 Jovian didn&#039;t have a full year of reign yet, while in the spring of 364, Valentinian had just been elected emperor. Perhaps the ridiculousness of the message on this Sirmium coinage is what prompted Valentinian to discontinue it before introducing his own types that spring or early summer.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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