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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Heliodromus, post: 7830787, member: 120820&quot;]Constantine I was using &quot;caesar&quot; as late as 313 AD on his bronze coinage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s my RIC VII Arles 9.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP(ERATOR) C(AESAR) CONSTANTINVS P(IVS) F(ELIX) AVG(VSTVS)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345495[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Already during Constantine&#039;s time &quot;caesar&quot; was falling out of use. It wasn&#039;t&nbsp; a normal legend for him; it had been used occasionally earlier, then briefly at Rome/Ostia and Arles after his victory over Maxentius (who had also been using it, presumably as an appeal to tradition).</p><p><br /></p><p>Magnentius would then also revive this archaic legend at Rome in 350 AD.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here he is on RIC VIII Rome 179, with a slightly fuller &quot;CAE&quot; abbrevation.</p><p><br /></p><p>IMP(ERATOR) CAE(SAR) MAGNENTIVS AVG(VSTVS)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1345496[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The AVG(VSTVS) title of course continued quite a bit later. I&#039;m not sure if Magnentius was the last to use CAESAR. The later emperors tended to use &quot;DN ...&quot; rather than &quot;IMP C ...&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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